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CLASS OF 1903 

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 
FIVE YEAR RECORD 



EDITED BY 

HOWARD W. AMELI 

SECRETARY OF THE CLASS 






Printed at 

Princeton University Press 

Princeton, N. J. 

1909 



INTRODUCTION 

This Quinquennial Record book is offered to the Class with many apologies 
on account of its incompleteness. The first notices were sent out last September 
with expectation that I would have enough material in the course of at least 
three months, but I found at the end of that time that about half the material was 
in my hands, making the many extra notices necessary. It was my intention to 
have each fellow write a letter for the book, but all my repeated coaxings, entreat- 
ies, etc., were alas in vain. To those fellows who did write letters for the book 
I wish to extend my congratulations as their efforts will help to make the record 
book infinitely more interesting than a mere compilation of names and addresses. 

Since graduation, the fellows in the Class have scattered to the four parts of 
the globe ; some have gone out to foreign fields as missionaries ; others as teachers, 
and still others as travellers. Among the professions, the study of law seemed 
to have had the greatest attraction, and as a result there are at present fifty 
of our Class who are young barristers practising throughout the United States, — ■ 
the career of the lawyers is more particularly described in "Al" Smith's article on 
the Law. Those who studied medicine, though fewer in number than those who 
studied law, now hold responsible positions in the various hospitals of our cities, 
as you will learn by reading "Old Doctor" Mixsell's article on Medicine. The 
Class is also well represented in the clergy, there being nine men who are now 
ministers in charge of churches, and I am informed are all doing well, as you will 
see by the interesting article by Reverend Paul Stratton of Yonkers. The suc- 
cess of the fellows in politics is just as great as the unknown author of the article 
on politics would have you believe. As for diplomacy. Pax Hibben will tell you 
all about it in his article. The number of married men in the Class is increasing, 
and at this time, there are sixty-five men who are happily married. I call your 
attention to the pictures of some of our 1903 children, on another page of this 
book. They certainly are a fine looking group of youngsters and well might their 
parents be proud. I desire to respectfully report to Presidents Roosevelt and 
Pearson that we now have fifty-two children on our class-roll and great expec- 



tations for the future. The Class is especially proud of the fact that it now 
has a Class boy, Philip Henry Dugro II, whose picture is on the frontispiece of 
this record book. As will be seen from the following, the boy's ancestors were 
very closely and prominently associated with the early history of Princeton. 

It is singularly appropriate that this 
attractive little chap should be a Prince- 
ton Class Boy, for he has a remarkable 
Princeton ancestry. His father, Charles 
H. Dugro, graduated in 1903. His 
mother, Alice Van Cleve Dugro, is the 
granddaughter of General Horatio Phil- 
lips Van Cleve (hon. 1831), appointed 
in 1826 to West Point from Princeton. 
He was the son of Dr. John Van Cleve, 
a graduate of Princeton in the Class of 
1797, a member of the Board of Trus- 
tees from 1810 till his death in 1826. 
Dr. John Van Cleve's wife, Anna Hous- 
ton, was the daughter of William 
Churchill Houston, who graduated from 
Princeton in 1768 with distinguished 
honor, who was prominent in the Revo- 
lutionary history of that period, and 
who, in 1779, with Governor Livingston 
and Robert Morris, furnished $35,000.00 
to supply clothing to the troops of the 
Continental Army. 

William Churchill Houston's wife was 
Jane Smith, daughter of the Rev. Caleb 
Smith of St. George's Manor, Long Isl- 
and. Caleb Smith was President pro 
tem. of Princeton College after the 
death of President Edwards in 1758. 
His wife was Martha Dickinson, young- 
est daughter of Jonathan Dickinson, the 
first president of Princeton College. 
— Alumni Weekly. 

1 wish to thank C. Whitney Darrow 1903 for his assistance in preparation 
of material for this book. 

You can see from the foregoing attempt at a summary of the doings of the 
men of 1903 that all are progressing, and may the greatest success attend the 
endeavors of each man of the Class of 1903. 

Faithfully yours, 

Howard W. Ameli. 



CLASS ORGANIZATION 

President, 
Forrest Garfield Pearson. 

Vice-President, 
Albridge Clinton Smith, Jr. 

Secretary and Treasurer, 
Howard Wilmurt Ameli. 

Memorial Secretary, 
AuGusTE Roche, Jr. 

Chairman Reunion Committee, 
Percy Rivington Pyne II. 



1903 
WHERE AND WHAT 

First address given is the permanent one, the second is the present resi- 
dence or business address. 

John L. Acheson 

522 West Seventh St., Albany, Oregon. 
901 Superior St., Port Huron, Mich. 
Minister. 

Cyrus H. Adams, Jr. 

150 Lincoln Park Boulevard, Chicago, 111. 
517 Monadnock Bldg., Chicago, 111. 
Lawyer, firm Adams & Candee. 
Married Mary S. Shumway, June 19, 1906. 

Charles E. Allison 

Spring Mills, Pa. 

Care Shipley Construction Co., 72 Trinity Place, N. Y. C. 

269 W. 52 St., N. Y. City. 

Engineer with above company. 

Howard W. Ameli 

1422 Pacific St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
141 Broadway, N. Y. C. 
Lawyer. 

Bear Howard: 

I must apologize for not having answered sooner your many impertinent questions 
contained in your various circulars received from time to time. As each has been received 
I have immediately proceeded to lay them aside and forget them as speedily as possible, 
which seems to be the proper thing to do with circulars of the "Dear Classmate" variety. 
Wishing you success in your journalistic efforts, 

Your best friend, 

Howard. 

James C. Ames 

4835 Greenwood Ave., Chicago, 111. 

Bond salesman with Harris Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago, 111. 

Married Zoe Kendall, July 28, 1906. 



James W. Ames 

312 Washington St., Jersey City, N. J. 
290 Valley Road, Montclair, N. J. 

President of W. Ames & Co., manufacturers of railroad spikes, bolts and bar 
iron. 

Samuel A. Anders 

Lansdale, Pa. 

1412 Euclid Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Professor of German (head of department), in Temple University, Phila- 
delphia. 

Married Charlotte Madaline Horn, June 21, 1905, at Freehold, N. J. 
Born, S. Sterling Anders, Jan. 16, 1907, at Philadelphia. 

R. Earle Anderson 

275 Nassau St., Princeton, N. J. 

520 Shepherd St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 

First-class ship draughtsman in the Bureau of Construction and Repair, 
Navy Department. Designer of naval vessels. 

Married Emily Hays Farr, June 6, 1906, at Lawrenceville, N. J. 

Born, Edith Anderson, Jan. 25, 1908. 

The Trenton Times of Dec. 28 printed a two-column article on Earle's latest 
invention. It said in part : 



INVENTION Bl TRENTON eOY 



R. Earl Anderson, son of Mr. and 
Mrs. Robert M. Anderson, of Princeton, 
formerly of Trenton, has gained inter- 
national fame because of his recent in- 
vention of a fire control mast which has 
been adopted for use in the United 
States Navy. 

Mr. Anderson's invention will be 
given a thorough test by the battleships 
Idaho and Mississippi, which are to 
go to Cuba soon, sailing from League 
Island on January 9. 

Naval experts of all nations are anx- 
iously awaiting the outcome of the 
strenuous tests through which the new 
naval masts will be put in mid-ocean, 
for the invention overcomes one of the 
greatest drawbacks to naval gunnery. 



Robert P. Anderson 

8s Oakland Ave., Bloomfield, N. J. 

I5i3-i9th Ave., Seattle, Wash. 

Instructor in Classics in Seattle High School. 

Chase Andrews, Jr. 

I Summit St., Flushing, L. I. 

In Auditor's Office, New York Central R. R., N. Y. C. 

John G. Armstrong 

147 Prospect St., Hagerstown, Md. 

Fourth and Sedgley Aves., Philadelphia. 

Western Representative for A. Bowen's Son, manufacturers of specialties. 

S. Howard Armstrong 

32 East 61 St., N. Y. C. 

With A. C. Armstrong & Son, 3 W. i8th St., N. Y. C. 

Morgan Ashley 

St. Stephen's Parish House, Woodland Ave., Plainfield, N. J. 

Plainfield, N. J., October 8, 1908. 

My life has been very uneventful since graduation. I spent one year as a P. G. at 
Princeton, and although it was fine and dandy to be still there, it was not the same place 
without the Class of 1903. The following year I went to the General Theological Seminary, 
New York City, and spent three years there. 

When I left in June, 1907, I took charge of a mission at Butler, N. J. Here I remained 
until the end of September, igo8. 

Now I am rector of St. Stephen's Church, Plainfield, just starting out, but everything 
looks promising. If any of 1903 men come this way, drop in and see me. I can always put 
up one or two. 

Lot Hamlin is in London. His firm address is Parr & Bank, Regent Street. He has just 
been operated on for appendicitis. He is much better and has left the hospital. 

Wishing all 1903 men good luck and God-speed, believe me, 

Your classmate, 
' ! ^ "Lady." 

Henry C. Ashmead 

1442 N. 17th St., Phila. 

Greensburg, Pa. 

Engineer with Pittsburg Const. Co., Diamond Bank Bldg., Pittsburg. 



Clifford R. Babson 

447 Ridgewood Road, South Orange, N. J. 

With United Lead Co., iii Broadway, New York City. 

David Baird, Jr. 

804 Cooper St., Camden, N. J. 

Roderick B. Barnes 

316 W. 75th St.N. Y. C. 

Studying architecture at the American Academy in Rome, Villa Mira fieri, 
Rome, Italy. 

William G. Barr 

70 Berkeley Ave., Orange, N. J. 

Lawyer with firm of Miller, King, Lane and Traflrord, 80 Broadway, N. Y. C 

Edward T. Barron 

1 1 32 Murray Hill Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
613 N. 4th St., Steubenville, Ohio. 
Mingo Steel Works, Mingo Jnct., Ohio. 
Chief Inspector Carnegie Steel Co. 

Charles R. Bauerdorf 

214 W. 96th St., N. Y. C. 

Member of law firm of Deyo & Bauerdorf, 11 1 Broadway, N. Y. C. 

Married Mabel J. Ronan, June 8, 1907. 

Frederick W. Bayles 

II Birchwood Ave., East Orange, N. J. 

With New York Telephone Co., 15 Dey St., New York City. 

William Baylis, Jr. 

II East 66th St., New York City. 

With Baylis & Co., Brokers, 15 Wall St., New York City. 

Member New York Stock Exchange. 

George H. Beal 

Last known address, Clarinda, Iowa. 



Leonard T, Beale 

Last known address, Villa Nova, Pa. 

Edward B. Beam 

390 Broadway, Paterson, N. J. 

John F. Betz, III 

Betz Building, Philadelphia, Pa. 
4224 Pine St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Treasurer John F. Betz & Son., Ltd., Brewers, Fifth and Collowhill Sts., 
Philadelphia. 

Married Emma M. Gillig, December 10, 1906, at New York City. 
Born, Sybilla Kathryn Betz, December 13, 1907, at Philadelphia. 

Charles E. Beury 

2104 Tioga St., Philadelphia. 

Lawyer, with William A. Glasgow, Jr., Real Estate Trust Bldg., Philadelphia. 
Married Ella Philson Fischer, June 27, 1906, at Shamokin, Pa. 
Born, Charles William Beury, at Shamokin, Pa., June 3, 1907. Died Sep- 
tember 25, 1907. 

Born, Elizabeth Beury, at Philadelphia, September 3, 1908. 

January 26, 1909. 

My dear Howard: 

Your last demand for a letter received. You'll get a reluctant note in reply, and that 
only because it must tell so little of things accomplished in five and more years that it won't 
discourage other poor devils who haven't done things. 

Graduated from Harvard Law School after three strenuous, though pleasant years, asso- 
ciated with former classmates and other Princeton men. That was on the 27th of June, 
1906. Same day was married and started on a tour around the world. Mrs. Beury 
and I visited Hawaii, Japan, China, Siam, Malay Settlements, Burma, India, Ceylon, Egypt, 
Italy, across the continent to England and home. That was fun. 

Spent the summer of 1907 in the West Virginia coal fields. Admitted to Pennsylvania 
Bar in 1908. Now practising law at 415 Real Estate Trust Building, Philadelphia. Won't 
tell you how the big fees are coming in. Wonder whether there is any money in the law. 
This is work. That's all. It's good to be working. 

Best wishes and success to all. 

Sincerely, 

Chas. E. Beury. 

David S. Bingham 

59 Walnut St., East Orange, N. J. 
Lawyer, 80 Broadway, New York City. 



James A. Blair, Jr. 

24 Broad St., New York City. 
9 W. 50th St., New York City. 
With Blair & Co., Bankers. 

William H. Blakeman 

1435 Girard Ave., Philadelphia. 

Assistant general foreman of the hull construction department of William 
Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Co. 

February 3, 1909. 
My dear Howard: 

Your card received. It happened that a few days ago I was talking to Charles Beury 
about the Record, and he said he had sent upon request a letter about his doings. I sent you 
the blank, I think. Do you want any more? Probably some of the other students have told 
of the 1903 students in Boston during the years 1903-1905. Thirty-one Botolph Street was 
the hang-out of Paul Ralph, Ed Barron and myself, and was a sort of rendezvous for the 
cohorts. Charles Beury, Dickey Wilson and Chief Pierson and Dahlgren and students from 
other classes will remember the beautiful view of the box factory and other buildings from 
our front windows. Dib Baird and Forney and others graced our humble dwelling. 

I have been in Philadelphia since July, 1905, and have reached the proud eminence of 
Assistant General Foreman of the Hull Construction Department of Cramp's Shipyard. 

Bill Newell is engaged. Probably that's why he can't be reached. I, who know his 
lair, can catch him only at fleeting intervals. He is at the Episcopal Hospital, and can be 
reached at that address. He went there in the summer of 1907 and his term of residence 
expires in November of this year. He can tell you much about his years at Penn that 
will be of interest in all probability, although his present status of mind is about the most 
vacuous, and his talk about the most insipid I ever heard of, due to the above-noted beatific 
state. 

Hoping this may be of use to you, and prove to be an answer to your card, I remain. 

Yours truly, 

W. H. Blakeman. 

Fred J. Bleakley 

Last known address, Franklin, Pa. 

Walter W. Bond 

Last known address, 1634 Park Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Was at that time 
with Central Telephone Co., Bedford, Ind. 

Married, August 6, 1902, Alice Rowland. 
Born, Walter Wilson Bond, July 2, 1903. 



Walter Boswell 

927 Sheridan Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. 
Married Margaret E. Gray, April, 1908. 
Born, Margaret Jane Boswell, March 6, 1909. 

927 Sheridan Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. 
My dear Howard: 

My record is devoid of all extraordinary interest, being the ordinary events of an ave- 
rage life, with perhaps the crucial events occurring in a shorter period than most exper- 
ience. 

I left college at the beginning of junior year to enter the business in which my father 
was largely interested, doing this at his request, to help him in the detail and burden of his 
work. This move was wise, as I believe now, my father being sick the greater part of what 
would have been our Junior year. I left this business in June, 1904, and from February, 
igoS, to February, igo8, was Treasurer and Secretary of the Sterling Paint and Glass Co., 
a wholesale house in which I was actively engaged. In February, igo8, our business was 
sold to the Trust (Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.), and until recently the details of closing the 
business up have kept me reasonably busy. 

In March, igo7, my father died, and in April of the ensuing year, I married Miss Marga- 
ret E. Gray, of this city. We went to house-keeping, as they used to say, after a splendid 
trip west, where we spent the most of our time at the Grand Canyon, Yosemite Valley and 
Del Monte. 

My best man was my brother, Alfred C. Boswell 1905, and my ushers, William H. Thomp- 
son 1900, Jack Heard 1904 — all of Pittsburgh — and Charles H. Higgins of 1903, my old room- 
mate, who, as you know, is in your part of the world. Our plans were sadly broken by 
the sudden death of my mother in September, and my wife and I broke up our new home 
and moved into the home of my parents to be with my brother, Alfred C. Boswell and my 
younger sister, Edith B. Boswell. 

As you see, it is a very plain chronicle — nothing else — ^but full of sorrows and changes. 
What can be more true than the words of Burns, "The well-laid plans of mice and men 
etc." I hope this will answer, 

With best wishes, 

Boz. 

James W. Boyd 

273 Park Ave., Youngstown, Ohio. 

Secretary and Treasurer Simon Packing Co., wholesale fresh and cured 
meats. 

James B. Breeze 

Last known address, 247 W. State St., Trenton, N. J. 

James Day Brownlee 

Indiana, Pa. 

Lawyer, with offices at 410 Grant St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

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George L. Bubb 

407 W. 4th St., Williamsport, Pa. 

Robert Burkham 

. Rialto Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. 
4256 W. Pine St., St. Louis, Mo. 

St. Louis, Mo., November 12, 1908. 
My dear Howard: 

Five years is a long period in a man's life. When, however, in response to your request, 
I look back over the five years and more, which have elapsed since June, 1903, the great 
events which have befallen me during this interval are so few and I find myself and those of 
my classmates whom it has been my good fortune to frequently see, so little altered by the 
lapse of time, that it is with difficulty I realize how long it actually has been since last we 
were all together. The history of my life and wanderings since that day is not a long story. 

The summer after graduation, I was in Europe. The next fall I came to St. Louis, where 
I spent the following two years in an attempt to acquire the rudiments of the law and in pre- 
paring myself for the Bar examination. In the latter of these two purposes, at least, I was 
successful, as I was admitted to practice in June, 1905. The following September, Tom Mc- 
Pheeters and I, who had been classmates during our law course as well as at college, tackled 
the great game of client-chasing together, and have since continued at it. We are gradually 
building up a practice, and, I think, have no reason either to be disappointed over the past 
or discouraged by the outlook for the future. Our offices are in the Rialto Building, where 
we are always glad to welcome loyal members of 1903 in our personal as well as our pro- 
fessional capacities. (Put this last sentence in at the advertised rates.) 

Last December I deserted the rapidly thinning ranks of the "unmarrieds" and allied my- 
self with the Newly Weds. In taking this step, I was fortunate to choose a loyal Princeton- 
ian and, doubtless to the great sorrow of many feminine hearts, I picked Miss Ada Paschall 
Davis as worthy of the distinction of becoming Mrs. "Burkelow." Mrs. Burkham comes of 
a Princeton family, her father, Mr. H. N. Davis, being a member of the Class of '73, and her 
uncle, Mr. John D. Davis '72, being an alumni trustee. 

After receiving your polite request for a history of my life, I postponed writing this let- 
ter for a few days. I find now that this delay has been to some purpose, as in consequence 
of it I am able to announce the advent into the world of Miss Margaret Davis Burkham. 
Miss Burkham only put in her appearance on Thursday last, November Sth, and had I im- 
mediately answered your circular, as you can see, this important event would not have been 
chronicled. 

As yet, neither the nation, state, or city has bestowed great honors upon me. Up to this 
writing, I have steered clear of politics. If, however, in the future, I enter this field, I pro- 
pose to show the citizens of this State (who, if there be any truth in the maxim, are peculiarly 
insistent upon ocular demonstration) how great can be the accomplishments of one trained 
in the astute and Machiavellian school of "Bill" Singer, "Colonel" Byles and "Al" Schultz. 

It has been my ill luck so far to have missed every reunion of the Class, though I have 
occasionally been able to get back to the old burgh at other times. I trust that in the future, I 
will be more fortunate. 

With kindest regards to you and all other members of 1903, I am, 

Most sincerely your friend, 

Robert Burkham. 



John Burnham 

159 La Salle St., Chicago, 111. 

Evanston, 111. 

President Burnham, Butler & Co., Stocks and Bonds. 

Married, Catharine Wheeler, June 6, 1906. 

Bom, Catharine Burnham, October 19, 1908, at Evanston. 

Edward Bush 

White Haven, Pa. 

Lynwood, Pa. 

Manager refining department Pure Oil Co., Lynwood. 

Axtell J. Byles 

Titusville, Pa. 

Lawyer. 

Married, Florence Payne, at Titusville, September 6, 1905. 

Born, Julius Byles, October 13, 1908. 

Tessalea R. Cadenas 

22 Park Ave., Mount Vernon, N. Y. 

Manager of National Biscuit Co., Mount Vernon, N. Y. 

James T. Campbell, Jr. 

Franklin, Pa. 

With dry goods firm of J. G. Campbell & Son. 

Robert Candee 

1310 Maple Ave., Evanston, 111. 

Member of law firm of Adams & Candee, 517 Monadnock BIdg., Chicago, 111. 

Married Elizabeth S. Douglass, November 23, 1908, at Evanston, 111. 

January 14, 1909. 
My dear Howard: 

It is hard to find anything to write for the Class Record as I have done nothing that I 
know of to distinguish myself during the last five years, and nothing especially interesting to 
the other members of the Class. There are so many of our classmates who have become 
famous that I hestitate even to appear in print beside them. Take, for example, Cy Adams, 
who is one of the great political bosses of this great city, a member of a committee which can 
make or ruin a man's political life simply by saying he is good or bad. Take Bun Wilson, 
who sells aluminum by the ton — that's going some ! Andy Freeman could sell the spots ofif 

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a black dog to J. P. Morgan, let alone first-class securities ; or Spike McKaig, the Goldfield 
wonder ! Spike promised all of the Chicago boys a champagne dinner when he "struck." 
We have not had the champagne dinner, but no doubt he has struck. Then there is Alec 
Stobo. I hesitate even to mention Alec's calling for fear Mr. Bonaparte, of Washington, 
may begin to investigate him along with the other high officials of Standard Oil. Jimmie 
Ames is wearing finer clothes than ever, and Paul Welling has entirely lived down his con- 
vict's reputation and now has no fear of the corner policeman. I alone appear to be unchanged 
and therefore have little to say. I have been learning to practice law, am married, and will 
be glad to see any of the fellows that come to Chicago. 

Sincerely yours, 

Robert Candee. 

Shirley N. Carr 

149 Upper Mountain Ave., Montclair, N. J. 

Member of law firm of G. J. & S. N. Carr, 100 Broadway, New York City. 

James P. Cassidy 

622 St. James St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

In shipping department of the Oliver Iron and Steel Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Robert R. Cassilly 

Belcamp, Md. 

Engineer with the Baltimore Sewerage Commission, Baltimore, Md. 

Ward B. Chamberlln 

31 Nassau St., New York City. 
1302 Madison Ave., New York City. 

Member of the law firm of W. B. & G. F. Chamberlin, 31 Nassau St., New 
York City. 

Robert G. Chase 

60 Milford Ave., Newark, N. J. 

With S. B. Chapin & Co., 1 1 1 Broadway, New York City, stock brokers. 

Married May C. Ward, April 28, 1903, at Newark, N. J. 

Regis Chauvenet 

Sheridan, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. 
Wholesale dealer in lumber and coal, Sheridan, Pa. 

George H. P. Cheney 

18 Harrison Ave., Glens Falls, N. Y. 

Dry goods merchant, 130-132 Glens Falls St., Glens Falls, N. Y. 

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Avent Childress 

i6 Nassau St., New York City. 
Chappaqua, N. Y. 

With Mackay & Co., Bankers, i6 Nassau St., New York City. 
Secretary and Treasurer of Acme Ball Bearing Co. 
Married Madeline Mackay, February 4, 1905, at New York City. 
Born, Ann Mackay, December 12, 1905, at Yonkers, N. Y. ; Madeline 
Mackay, May 29, 1907, at New York City. 

John McF. Clancy 

Cherokee Park, Louisville, Ky. 

With Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Co., Louisville, Ky. 

Louisville, Ky. 
My dear Howard: 

During the past summer spent a couple of months west, stopping a few days in Chicago. 
Saw Johnnie Burnham, who is getting sleek and fat selling stock on margin to the unwary 
of Chicago, with one, Rube Lake, as chief capper. Calling in the offices of N. W. Harris & 
Co., I requested information of one, Mr. James E. Ames. The clerk whom I asked looked 
at me in a puzzled way, and in a few seconds broke into a smile of comprehension and 
said, "Oh, you mean Jimmie Ames." Just then Jimmie himself dashed from behind a strong 
mahogany desk and bore down on me— red neck-tie, fancy vest, broad-brimmed straw hat — 
Colonial hat-band, with a cute little bird feather topping it all off. The bond business looks 
good to Jim as he arrives at the office at about 9.30 in his machine, leaving at four to arrive 
home just in comfortable time to have tea with Mrs. James. I found Cy Adams' bald head 
protruding from the corner of a big law book, in a big, business-like office near the top f5oor 
of a tall office building. Wrink Grannis, the same old jovial Wrink, is making elevators with 
the Otis Elevator Co: in Chicago ; is a much married man. Spent a very pleasant week with 
Charlie Dugro, who is ranching near Livingston, Montana. Charlie is ranching in true Tiger 
lily style, living in a spacious house, rooms en suite, with bath and a big automobile attached. 
I think Charles must know everybody in the state of Montana. I met with him many Bills, 
Hanks and Jims, some of whom operated gin mills, others of whom were bank presidents 
and state senators. Charlie insists that he has a valuable asset in his ability to consume liq- 
uor conservatively with the best of them, and in his capacity as a mixer (not liquors, but 
with men). In Seattle I saw Paul Welling and Jim Eddy. Paul Welling, in the capacity of 
President of the Seattle Lumber Co., is steering that institution successfully through the 
troubled waters of 1908 ; and Jim Eddy occupies a seat on the board of directors of the Port 
Blakeley Lumber Co., one of the biggest lumber companies of that immense western country. 

Coming through Alberta, Canada, I had tidings of Fred Hussey and Runt Moore, both 
1902. People told me Runt and Fred had cornered the livery business at Banff Springs, and 
were chartering special cars monthly to carry their earnings back to the States. 

Since leaving college I have spent two years — 1904-1905 — in forestry work on Geo. W. 
Vanderbilt's estate at Biltmore, North Carolina, taking there the degrees of Bachelor of 
Forestry and Forest Engineer. I can tell you just why the little elm leaves on those fine old 



elm trees fluttered so beautifully when you lie on your back somewhere between Nassau 
Street and Old North and look up at the sky— but I cannot tell you just why it is that each 
year brings with it a yearning to get back to the old place again with a few fellows that we 
knew. Sincerely, 

John M. Clancy. 

Gilbert F. Close 

70 University Place, Princeton, N. J. 

Secretary to President Wilson, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J. 

Married Helen Smith Farrer on September i, 1908, at Dunmore, Pa. 

Blase Cole 

Hainesville, Sussex County, New Jersey. 

Assistant Physician to New Jersey State Hospital at Morris Plains, N. J. 

Dayton Colie 

Last known address, loi West 73rd St., New York City. 

James S. Conrad 

1002 First National Bank Bldg., Uniontown, Pa. 

Individual Bookkeeper of The National Bank of Fayette County. 

1002 F. N. B. Bldg., Uniontown, Pa., November 2, igo8. 

Mr. Howard W. Ameli, Secretary, 

Brooklyn, N. Y., 
My dear Howard: 

Complying with your general order of recent date, there is very little to say about 
this part of the Class. On leaving in June, 1903, I took a position with the H. C. Frick 
Coke Co., the coking branch of the Steel Corporation, where I remained until October 30, 
1907, when I accepted a position in the National Bank of Fayette County, in this small city. 

Nothing very startling has ever happened to me. I took a four-months' trip through 
China and Japan with W. K. Ewing 1904, in the early spring of 1906. 

Not married yet, and no prospects, sorry to say. 

I note that according to the Weekly you cannot locate J. M. Parry. Jim died in Colorado 
apart from any friends and family. His mother got as far as Omaha, but there received 
word of her son's death. His family lives in the East End, Pittsburgh, and if you write the 
Rev. Dr. Thos. L. Parry you can probably get any news you want. I cannot give you any 
street address. Concerning Harbison, also in the Weekly, you may reach him by addres- 
sing care of Carnegie Steel Co., Pittsburgh. He is either working in the office there or at 
the Duquesne Blast Furnaces. 

This is about all I can do for you. If anything more is needed, let me know. 

Yours, 

J. S. Conrad. 

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Kenneth McP. Coolbaugh 

3913 Spruce St., Philadelphia. 

With Acme Railway Equipment Co., Nos. 1032-3 Witherspoon Bldg., Phila- 
delphia. 

Henry M. Cooper 

Room 305, 115 Dearborn St., Chicago. 

Hanford-Benton Co., Washington. 

Assistant Engineer Hanford Irrigation and Power Co., Hanford, Wash. 

George S. Couch, Jr. 

Kanawha St., Charleston, W. Va. 

With the law firm of Brown, Jackson & Knight, Charleston, W. Va. 

Charleston, W. Va., November 17th, 1908. 
Mr. Howard W. Ameli, 1422 Pacific Street, 

Brooklyn, N. Y., 
My dear Howard: 

During the last five years I have been constantly reminded that I once was a student 
at Princeton, and at regular intervals I have received piteous appeals headed "Dear Class- 
mate," stating that the treasury was greatly in need of funds or that it had been decided to 
build a 1903 entry in a new dormitory, and that I was expected to buy a few brick for the 
same, etc., etc. When your last letter came, reasoning from past experience, I naturally ex- 
pected that the Class was going to build the contemplated pipe-line from Milwaukee to 
Princeton, or something of the sort, but when I found that this time you wanted something 
that didn't cost anything, I felt somewhat relieved. 

I had supposed that you only wanted letters from those who had gained fame in poli- 
tics, distinction in business, or notoriety in police court, penitentiary, poor-house or mar- 
riage. None of these things have come to me. I have lived a simple, uneventful life, varied 
now and then by an occasional trip back to Princeton for a Class reunion and hoping with 
my fellow men hereabouts that the sheath gown craze will soon strike Charleston. 

After graduating from Princeton I decided, or rather my father decided for me, that 
my mind ngeded some further training to fit me for the strenuous battles of life, and as I 
had heard that the University of Virginia didn't have compulsory chapel or proctors, I 
decided to go there. Johnnie Poe and I landed in Charlottesville the same day. Johnnie 
came down to coach the football team and I began the arduous study of law. He used to 
loaf in my room a good deal, and one day he voiced my sentiments exactly when he said, 
"This would be a fine old world if you didn't have to work." I soon found that it was all 
work and no play in the law school if you expected to learn anything. In the immortal 
language of the man who corrupted Hadleysburg, with apologies to that goat, I would say to 
all those contemplating the study of law, "You are not a bad man ; go, and sin no more ; and 
if ever the chance is offered you to go to hell or to law school, choose the former." Hap- 
pily, the course at Virginia only lasts two years ; thus, I was enabled to gain one year on 
most of the '03 fellows who went to law schools having three-year courses. When I had 

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safely passed the State Bar examination, I was in a position to appreciate the following re- 
mark, which was made by one of our old judges to a young man whose examination paper for 
admission to the Bar had just been read: "Young man, I will admit you, but all hell couldn't 
qualify you to practise." 

After being admitted to practise I was lucky enough to get in with a good firm of law- 
yers, and was started in trying railroad cases before justices of the peace, mostly hog and 
cow cases, and after three years' experience I have attained a high degree of proficiency, as I 
am now generally able to hold the plaintiff down to the amount sued for. I have also learned 
that nothing improves the value of a cow as much as having her crossed with a locomotive. 

As Curl Pierson says, the only trouble with the practice of law is that there is not enough 
of it, and a young lawyer's money is tainted with hard work, but even at that he is not so 
poorly off, for if he has money people think he is a grafter, and if he is prosperous every- 
body wants to borrow from him. In these times of predatory wealth, corporation corruption 
and low-grade Republican prosperity, I have about come to the conclusion that the only safe 
way to make money is to marry it ; but as yet I have been unable to teach an heiress how to 
take a joke, and therefore can not comply with your request to send a picture to go in the 
composite picture of 1903 babies. However, I would suggest that you communicate with my 
fellow townsman, John Dana, who can contribute materially to the aforesaid composite pic- 
ture. In this connection allow me to say that if John's first born had been a prospective 
Princeton man, West Virginia would now be the proud possessor of the '03 Class Cup. With 
best wishes for the Class, and hoping that the Record will be a success in every way, I 
beg to remain, 

Sincerely yours, 

Geo. B. Couch, Jr. 

John Crawford, Jr. 

428 Mt. Hope Place, New York City. 
204>4 Washington St., Portland, Ore. 

Winthrop Dahlgren 

311 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. 

217 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. 

New Algonquin Club, Boston, Mass. 

John S. Dana 

12 Dunbar Place, Charleston, W. Va. 

Secretary and buyer for Abney-Barnes Co., wholesale dry goods and notions, 
812 Virginia St., Charleston. 

Riarried, Launie Abney, November 18, 1903, at Charleston. 
Born, Frances Worth Dana; Katherine Arnold Dana. 

Charleston, W. Va., November 10, 1908. 
My dear Hoii'ard: 

Have never received any statistic blank. Please mail me some at once, as I don't know 
what you wish to know. My knees knock as loudly as ever, my hair is still a delicate blonde. 



my rotundity, thank God, is no more pronounced, my complexion is soft like a baby, and red 
like a beet; in short, I am still large and fat and beautiful, and occasionally have that most 
galling epithet, "good-natured," hurled at me. I wore one of those monogram Taft buttons 
and everyone thought it was FAT instead of TAFT. I am now 29 years old, splendidly 
broken to double harness, and probably the best nurse west of the Rocky Mountains. 

The greatest regret of my life is that I cannot possibly get away at commencement time. 
It's the one time in the year when I cannot forsake my source of supply and nourishment. 
(I don't mean my wife.) Good luck to you, Am, and every mother's son in old '03. 

Yours sincerely, 

John Peter. 

Leroy L. Daniel 

1002 N. 6th St., Harrisburg, Pa. 

Vernon. N. Y. 
My dear Classmates: 

Sorry I was not able to attend the last Class Reunion, but I had only been here a little 
over a month, and I felt it impossible to run away at that time. Besides, the distance had 
a little to do with it. 

You may recall I was Church History Fellowship man from the Seminary in 1906, and 
in the fall of that year I left for Edinburgh, and spent the college year there. Had some de- 
lightful experiences. An '00 man, Elmore, came over about the middle of the year, and 
hunted me up. I had never seen him before, but "Princeton" was the connecting link, and 
we became inseparable friends. We left Edinburgh in the spring. Toured around through 
England, spending some time in Oxford and Cambridge. Crossed the channel to Holland, 
and went up the Rhine, finally landing at Marburg, Germany, where one of the leading 
universities is located. We spent the summer term there. After we left Marburg, we chased 
all over Germany, Switzerland, and Italy ; landed in Paris and then home from Antwerp. 

I came back late last fall. Our classmate, "Goose" Stratton, was the first I recognized 
on the pier awaiting my arrival. I visited him several times since, and found him doing a 
fine work in Matteawan, N. Y., where he was preaching. I came up here about the middle 
of April, and entered upon the work the ist of May. So you see I am of not very long stand- 
ing. However, the work is going along nicely, and I am satisfied. 

No matrimonial prospects in sight, as I have other very important things to absorb all 
my time, although we have some fine young girls in our village. 

With best wishes for your success and appreciation for the work you are so faith- 
fully doing for our Class, believe me, 

Most sincerely yours, 

Leroy L. Daniel. 

C. Whitney Darrow 

63 Prospect Ave., Princeton, N. J. 

30 Nassau St., Princeton, N. J. 

Manager Princeton University Press and Princeton Publishing Co. 

Married May.T. Barton, November 14, 1905. 

Born, Dorothy Barton Darrow, January 7, 1907. 



Joseph P. Davies 

Last known address, 137 N. Ludlow St., Dayton, Ohio. 

Arthur T. Dear 

103 Summit Ave., Jersey City, N. J. 

15 Exchange Place, Jersey City, N. J. 

Lawyer. 

At present with the Alcolm Co., 200 Broadway, New York City. 

Harry R. Decker 

Montclair, N. J. 

Interne in Presbyterian Hospital, New York City. 

My dear Classmates: 

Greetings one and all. It seems hardly possible that over five years have come and gone 
since we supped our cup together that memorable commencement night in 1903. They have 
been busy ones for most of us. Four years in medical school was not conducive to much 
loafing, but they were bully years for me. We certainly had a goodly bunch of '03 candidates 
for M.D. degrees at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. There were 
"Stork" Woods, famous as a "doc" even before he studied medicine, and Bill Janeway, Bert 
Guile, Cad Keeney, little Gussie Faber and Bill Mixsell. Once graduated we have scattered 
through the New York Hospitals. I have been at Presbyterian since July, 1907, trying my 
luck at our repairing art under most auspicious surroundings ; and here I am to be until 
July 1909. Where then, goodness only knows. One thing is certain — it will be on the single 
side of the marital fence, and for some time to come, if not all time. 

It has been my particular good fortune to have been near Princeton in these years, and 
to have been able to attend our reunions either there or in New York ; and to have seen many 
'03 men, though not as much of them as I should have liked. We are a good Class, and 
from all reports growing mentally and physically (ask Col. Byles), if not financially. Men 
seem to be doing well, whether they have taken up business or professional work. Our le- 
gal advisers, whose number is legion — their cards, from Counselor Ameli to Attorney Wright 
fill one drawer of my desk — seem to be especially prosperous. 

Five years more will work many changes. Here's hoping that they will be ones of health 
and happiness for '03. 

Sincerely your classmate, 

Harry R. Decker. 

Martin C. Decker 

North Chicago, 111. 

Lawyer. Is Village Attorney and Clerk of the Lake County Board of 
Review. 

Married Edna Florence Bryant, September 2, 1901, at Ivanhoe, 111. 

Born, Bernard Martin Decker, April 2, 1904, at Highland Park, 111. ; Lewis 
Bryant Decker, May 8, 1906, at North Chicago, 111. 



North Chicago, III., November lo, 1908. 
Mr. Howard W. Ameli, 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 
My dear Howard: 

I was obliged to leave Princeton before my Class graduated and go to teaching. While 
teaching I took summer courses in Chicago University and private work in Latin in North- 
western University, and in this way had sufficient credits in 1903 to take a degree, but was 
not able to go to Princeton at that time ; so I took my degree from Northwestern University. 
I am in hopes some day to transfer these credits, if possible, to Princeton, and go down 
there and get a sheepskin. 

From 1903 to 1906 inclusive, I taught school near Chicago, and attended evening law 
school. I was admitted to the Bar in October, 1906, and have been practising since January 
1st, 1907, at North Chicago. By mixing a little politics in with law practise, I have been quite 
successful, and am satisfied to continue practising law in this county. 

I have two husky little lads, of whom I will try and send you a picture in the near future. 

I have kept in touch with some of the boys since I left Princeton, and was greatly dis- 
appointed in not being able to attend the fifth year reunion. The next big reunion I will 
certainly be on hand. 

With best wishes, I am, 

Sincerely yours, 

M. C. Decker. 



William S. Detwiller 

405 Chestnut St., Columbia, Pa. 
200 E. 4th St., Chester, Pa. 

General Manager the Lincoln Mfg. Co., and also Genl. Mgr. the Trainer 
Spinning Co. 

Philadelphia, Pa., November 2, 1908. 
My dear Howard: 

At your request I am sending you a resume of events since leaving college. 

Being imbued with spirit of wanderlust, "Bobby" Burkham, "Fay" Templeton, Otis Wal- 
ker, and myself, spent several months in England, and on the Continent. On our journey 
through the different countries, we met quite a few classmates, naturally a "reunion" was in 
order which brought us into closer relationship, being strangers in a strange land. Suffice 
to say, it was a most enjoyable trip. 

Upon my return to the States, I started at the bottom to learn the cotton manufacturing 
business. After working nine months as a "struggling mill hand," I was advanced to the 
position of Assistant Manager. 

February of last year I was appointed General Manager of the corporation's two 
cotton mills, which position I hold at the present time. At a recent meeting of the Board of 
Directors, I was elected to the Vice Presidency of the corporation. Being the youngest mem- 
ber on the Board, I consider it a very great honor. 

I am still in the bachelor ranks, but "Time" may bring about a change in affairs. 

Respectfully yours, 

W. Sanderson Detwiler. 



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Charles G Deuel 

149 Broadway, New York City. 

Lawyer, with law firm of Lowenstein & Rossman, 149 Broadway, New 
York City. 

Charles L. Doe 

21 S. Mountain Ave., Montclair, N. J. 
■ 95 Liberty St., New York City. 

Vice-President firm of Doe & Whittier, Builders and Contractors. 

Norman H. Donald 

New Brighton, S. I., N. Y. 

Cashier, McCurdy, Henderson & Co., Bankers and Brokers, 24 Nassau St. 
New York City. 

William H. Donald 

New Brighton, S. I., N. Y. 

With Donald, Gordon & Co., Bankers and Brokers. 

Charles H. Dugro 

Melville, Mont. 

Married Alice Van Cleve, June 11, 1903. 

Born, Philip Henry Dugro H, July 14, 1905. Class boy. 

My dear Howard: 

Left college, was married, came east and went to New York Law School, was clerk in 
office of Goeller, Schaffer & Eisele, at 207 Broadway, lawyers. After being admitted to prac- 
tise became Boiivier's clerk and later partner. Am now spending some time in west and 
about to be admitted here, still being in firm of Bouvier, Dugro & Doyle, at 141 Broadway. 

Sincerely, 

Chas. H. D. 
Regards to the students. 

Remick C. Eckhardt 

120, I2th St., Troy, N. Y. 

420 Main St., Orange, N. J. 

Physician, associated with Dr. W. A. Wakely. 

Robert B. Eddy 

Blind River, Ontario, Canada. 

With Eddy Bros., Ltd., Blind River, Canada. 

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James G. Eddy 

Care of Port Blakely Mill Co., Port Blakely, Wash. 

Director in Port Blakely Mill Co. 

Married Mary Horton Cooley on April 27, 1904, at Bay City, Mich. 

Born, Adeline Seymour Eddy, on April 16, 1907, at San Francisco, Cal. 

Andrew J. Edgar 

Last known address, 71 Congress St., Jersey City, N. J. 

Benjamin F. Elbert, Jr. 

Des Moines, Iowa. 

George W, Ely, Jr. 

Columbia, Pa. 

Hatfield, Wis. 

Resident Engineer with J. G. White & Co., Inc., New York, Hatfield, Wis. 

Married Alice R. Francis on August 10, 1907, at Merrillan, Wis. 

Born, Francis Gould Ely, on October 10, 1908, at Merrillan, Wis. 

Gustavus W. Faber 

92 Mercer St., Plainfield, N. J. 

On surgical staff of Gouveneur Hospital, New York City. 

Frederick C. Fairbanks 

1522 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind. 

Married Helen E. Scott, October io, 1906, in Steubenville, Ohio. 

Born, Charles Warren Fairbanks III, August 11, 1908, in Pittsburgh. 

Wallace R. Ferguson 

Last known address. New Wilmington, Pa. 

George Fernald 

Last known address, 25 S. Water St., Chicago. 

Joseph C. Field 

Hightstown, N. J. 

Oakwood and Central Aves., Orange, N. J. 

Telephone Engineer with Western Electric Co. 

Married Katherine B. Ayres, May 30, 1908, at Hightstown, N. J. 



John C. Finney 

Churchville, Md. 

Pastor of First Presbyterian Cliurch, Forest Park, Baltimore, Md. 

Forest Park, Baltimore, Ma, November i8, igo8. 
My dear Howard: 

I thought I had filled out something for the Class Record, but your postal to-day seems 
to say no. 

I have nothing of unusual interest or importance to add to the Record. I have been qui- 
etly busy at my life's work. Am still unmarried and still without claim to distinction, except 
for having been associated with so illustrious a Class as that of 1903. 

The first year after graduation, my plans were held in abeyance by typhoid fever. Af- 
that, I entered Princeton Theological Seminary, studying also for an A.M. at the University, 
and taking up mission work during my vacations. I duly graduated from the Seminary in 
1907, and then became interested in the organization of a small Presbyterian Church in this 
suburb of Baltimore. Our new building has just been dedicated, and we expect to prosper. 

With every good wish to each of my fellow classmates, 

I am sincerely yours, 

John Clark Finney. 

John A. Forney 

469 W. 140th St., New York City. 

514 W. 177th St., New York City. 

With CatHn & Co., 345 Broadway, New York City. 

Married Anna M. Hunt, June 17, 1906, Goldfield, Nev. 

Bom, John A. Forney, November 29, 1907, at New York City. 

January 23, 1909. 
My dear Howard: 

When the good ship "Naughty Three" pulled anchor and set sail from "Old Nassau," 
laden with a cargo of sheepskins, I got aboard like a stowaway and hid. One stormy day 
I became seasick, and took a chance on deck. The captain spied me, and it was all up. I 
was put to work. However, I have remained a member of her crew and will stick to her 
till she sinks. 

For about three years I worked with Parish, Stafford Co., a wholesale cotton goods 
house in New York City, acting as traveling and city salesman. It wasn't long before I got 
a notion that the west held forth more golden opportunities, and so I went there, arriving 
in Goldfield, Nevada, February 22, 1906. My first job was underground in the mines. This 
was hard graft, but I stuck to it till I got a position in a stock broker's office. Here I learned 
the business end of the mining game, and was doing well up to the time of the San Francisco 
disaster. This so affected the stock market that everyone lost practically all they had in- 
vested, myself included. After this I organized a prospecting party, consisting of Jack Craw- 
ford '03, Bill Sterrett '02, Lon Greenly '00, myself and "Slim," a tall, lanky native, known 
out there as a "desert rat." "Slim" went along as guide, for he was familiar with every trail 
and canyon in the state. We rigged out with a "schooner" (gypsy-wagon) pulled by a 
"Jinny and Jack" (mules) and had a bunch of burros, laden down with pack saddles of junk 

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and grub. This "stake" was enough to last us several months, but as it would take as many 
months to tell of our experiences and adventures, I'll just say we survived the perils of the 
alkili deserts, where "the heat would make your bloomin' eyebrows crawl." 

We celebrated our return to camp by taking in the famous Gans-Nelson fight. Shortly 
after this I opened a small store, handling fruits, perishable goods and cut flowers, having 
same expressed to my address every morning by Wells-Fargo, from Los Angeles, and Sac- 
ramento Valley. This was a lucrative business, which I sold out at a handsome profit. 
About this time Johnny Poe, who was located in Nevada, came east to see the Y.-P. game, 
and when someone asked him if he ever ran across Jack Forney out west, he said, "Sure I 
did; saw him just before I came away. He is doing fine; making lots of money; getting rich 
quick; has a peanut and banana stand on the main thoroughfare." After selling out I 
bought a seat on the stock exchange, and became one of the leading brokers, buying and 
selling securities for my clientele, which consisted mainly of my old customers who patronized 
my "peanut and banana store." The game finally "petered out" ; the labor unions tied up the 
mines, strikes and riots ensued and your "Uncle Dudley" hiked away to more peaceful climes 
in southern California. 

Three months in Los Angeles found us turning our thoughts toward home, where we 
arrived September i, 1908. 

On November 29th I became the proud father of a boy. John Jr. is now a bouncing lad, 
and looks like a promising candidate for some future Princeton football team. 

Since returning east I have been located in my old line of work, selling cotton piece goods 
for Catlin & Co., wholesale commission merchants, 347 Broadway. 

On several occasions I have succeeded in breaking away from the "simple life." On one, 
attended our quinquennial reunion, at which I had a "grand old time" helping to keep the "pot 
a boiling." In November I journeyed to Princeton with my better half, and got drenched 
singing "Old Nassau" and giving "Locomotives" at that mournful defeat. While west I 
joined the ranks of the benedicts, and though my experiences did not materialize a fortune, 
I accomplished the thing every man is expected to do, that of becoming both a husband and 
father. 

Ever for Princeton and our Class, 

Yours, 

Jack Forney. 

Ralph K. Forsyth 

Last known address, 41 Peal St., Kingston, N. Y. 

Sheldon Franklin 

74 Prospect St., East Orange, N. J. 

Partner in law firm of Wrenn & Franklin, 45 Pine St., New York City. 

Married Mary I. Scott, Oneonta, N. Y., June 28, 1905. 

Mclntyre Fraser 

303 S. Melcher St., Johnstown, N. Y. 

With law firm of Getman & Fraser, no W. Main St., Johnstown, N. Y. 

Married, Katherine S. Argersinger, January 30, 1907. 

Born, Mclntyre Frazer, Jr., January 29, 1909. 



Karl T. Frederick 

141 E. 44th St., New York City. 

Lawyer, with firm of Wilmer, Canfield & Stone, 49 Wall St., New York City. 

Halsted G. Freeman 

423 E. Huron St., Chicago. 

With William A. Reade Co., Investment Securities, 240 LaSalle St., Chicago. 

John Frost 

650 Soledad St., San Antonio, Tex. 

With Frost National Bank, San Antonio, Tex. 

Alexander Gait 

63 Vandeventer Place, St. Louis, Mo. 

Member of firm of Gait & Meysenburg, Mfg. Agts. Orn. Iron, 922 Chemical 
Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. 

Treasurer U. S. Mail Chute Equipment Co. 

Clarence A. Garbrick 

Last known address, 13 N. High St., Bellefonte, Pa. 

Leland B. Garretson 

"Sunnymede," Morristown, N. J. 

Lawyer, with firm of JoHne, Larkin & Rathbone, 54 Wall St., New York 
City. 

William W. Gephart 

Bellefonte, Pa. 

Assistant Superintendent of Bellefonte Furnace Co., Bellefonte, Pa. 

Carl H.Getty 

Hoosick Falls, N. Y. 

With First National Bank, Hoosick Falls, N. Y. 

Married Lucy Williams Estabrook on June 18, 1902, at Hoosick Falls, N. Y. 

Born, Lucy Estabrook Getty, on August 21, 1903, at Hoosick Falls, N. Y. 

R. Wilds Gilchrist 

Lebanon, Ohio. 

President of the Curry Sanitarium at Lebanon, Ohio. 

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Vice-President of the Union Development Company. Director of The Mor- 
row Roller Mills Company. 

Married Edna T. Curry on October 3, 1905, at Lebanon, Ohio. 

Born, Katherine Probasco Gilchrist, on July 5, 1906, at Lebanon, Ohio. 

The "Gil" refuses to write for publication, and for further information I 
would refer you to the article on Politics. 

Douglas Gorman 

900 Continental BIdg., Baltimore, Md. 
Catonsville, Md. 

Vice-President Piedmont Mining Co. 
General Manager Gorman Coal and Coke Co. 

Uri G. Grannis 

University Club, Chicago. 
"The Walton," Chicago. 

Assistant to Assistant Treasurer of Otis Elevator Co., 821 Railway Exchange 
Bldg., Chicago. 

Married Jane Bruner Given on June 22, 1905, at Columbia, Pa. 
Born, William Charles Dustin Grannis, on August 12, 1908. 

Harold Greene 

Forest Service, office of Inspector, Albuquerque, N. M. 

In camp at Gallina, N. M. 

Assistant Land Examiner, Forest Service, U. S. A. Surveying, mapping 
and making general examination of claims of homestead applicants in the 
National Forest, New Mexico. 

In Camp near Gallina, N. Mex., October 10, 1908. 
My dear Howard: 

I have been leading a primitive, but very interesting life in the mountains of northern 
New Mexico for the past few months, and am already planning hard to hit Princeton for a 
few days next June. 

I had heard some time ago that George Fernald was in Albuquerque, but during the 
few days I was there I could find no one to verify this statement. 

I'm getting some fine hunting in this country — just shot a magnificent 200-pound buck 
a couple of days ago — and I'm now on the trail of some lions. There are some canyons in 
this country almost as deep as the one in my old stamping grounds — Wall Street. 
Remember me to any of the good students you may meet. 

Sincerely your friend, 

Haeold Greene. 

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LeGrand C. Griswold 

25 W. 48th St., New York City. 

Stock broker. Member of New York Stock Exchange. Office with Harris, 
Winthrop & Co., 25 Pine St., New York City. 

Married Esther Tone on June 11, 1907, at Hartsdale, N. Y. 

Born, Le Grand C. Griswold, Jr., on June 9, 1908, at New York City. 

My dear Howard: 

On leaving college I started in business in the fall of 1903 in the Knickerbocker Trust 
Co., 66 Broadway, New York, where I remained for eight months. In the spring of 1904 
I entered the firm of Kinnicutt & Potter, bankers, of i Nassau Street, New York, as a bond 
salesman, remaining with them about four months until the firm was dissolved. I then went 
in to the Bond Department of Potter, Choate & Prentice, of 5 Nassau Street, New York, 
until December, 1905, when I purchased a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, where I 
have been from that date until the time of writing. 

On June II, 1907, I inarried Miss Esther Tone, of New York, and left shortly afterwards 
for a motor trip through Europe, lasting three months. On June 9, 1908, I became the father 
of a son. At the present time I am living at No. 23 West 48th Street, New York City. 

Le Grand C. Griswold. 

Albert Gross 

Princeton, N. J. 
Teaching. 

Herbert V. Guile 

Bellevue Hospital, ist Ave. and 26th St., New York City. 
Physician on staff of above hospital. 

Otto A. Hack 

79 Hamilton Place, New York City. 

Lawyer, with firm of White & Otheman, 31 Nassau St., New York City. 

Married Claire M. Fendrich, October 10, 1908, at Vincennes, Ind. 

January 5, 1909. 
My dear Howard: 

After our graduation from Princeton I entered the New York Law School, and grad- 
uated from there in 1905. In October of the same year I was admitted to the Bar of New 
York State, and since then have been practicing my profession as attorney and counsellor 
at law at 31 Nassau Street, New York City. 

On October 10, 1908, one of the "home grown girls," Miss Fendrich, finally accepted 
me "for better or worse," and we are now living happily at 79 Hamilton Place, New York 
City, where we will be pleased to see each one and every one of the great Class of 1903 at any 
and all times. 

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This is a synopsis indeed of my wanderings, and I am very sorry that I haven't the time 
to go into details, as to the doings of '03 men in general. 

I enclose you herewith the statistic blank, and wish you great success with the Class 
Record. Yours truly. 

Otto A. Hack. 



Charles W. Hall 

Lewiston, Idaho. 
Fruit growing. 

February 9, 1909. 
My dear Howard: 

In reply to your request for my letter for the Class Record, I will proceed as follows : 

I started my business career in Atlantic City, July i, 1903, in a shop on the famous board- 
walk, selling antique furniture, jewelry, etc. On October 31st of the same year I was mar- 
ried to Carrie M. Ferris, of South Orange, N. J., and spent my first year as a Benedict in 
old Atlantic City. 

In October, 1904, I went into the coal business with my brothers in New York City, and 
lived in Brooklyn, where my daughter, Janet Stuart, was born December i8th. The coal bus- 
iness did not prove very lucrative, and was called off the following spring. 

In May, 1905, I joined the Princeton force working for "America's Greatest Railroad," 
and once more moved my goods and chattels, this time to New Rochelle, made famous by a 
song, and joined the ranks of the commuters. My second daughter, Margaret Goulding, 
was born March 4, 1907. 

In June, 1908, I was stung by the "Go West" bee, and in September took a trip through 
the Northwest and went home so enthusiastic that December 14, 1908, found the Hall family 
once more on the move, and now I have stopped work long enough to forget apples, peaches, 
and so on, and write this for the benefit of those classmates who may be interested. A letter 
addressed to me at Lewiston, Idaho, will be most welcome. 

Sincerely yours, 

C. W. Hall. 

George B. Hall 

Osceola Mills, Pa. 

General Manager Nassau Coal Mining Co. and the Mount Verde Coal Co. 



Gilmore S. Hamill 

Last known address, Oakland, Md. 

Stuart F. Hamill 

Last known address, Oakland, Md. 



W. Porter Hamilton 

Last known address, Englewood, N. J. 
Connected with the New York Sun. 

John A. Hamilton 

Last known address, Lexington, Mass. 

Lot M. Hamlin 

2587 Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Mich 

Secretary and Treasurer of McCord Mfg. Co., motor car suppHes, at above 
address. 

John H. Hankinson 

Eatontown, N. J. 
Yorktown Heights, N. Y. 
Farming. 

Yorktown Heights, Westchester County, N. Y., December 26, 1906. 
My dear Howard: 

I am answering your request for a letter for completeness sake, and not to detract with 
any ordinary tale from the famous records of the men of 1903. 

Since graduation most of my time has been spent on a farm. Events in November, 1903, 
forced me to become an apprentice in the ancient trade. From that date, I have been enjoy- 
ing the usual rewards of a neophyte, and the time-honored restraint of such apprenticeship. 
But, with all, I confess superior respect for my master, and a superior faith in his greatness. 
Nor has the pleasure of selling women's stocks and belts, the study of law, or reporting on a 
trade daily made my present work seem less the thing for me. 

Of other's exploits I have naturally not been in a way to hear very much. 
Charlie Imbrie's address was, at last knowledge, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 

Very truly, 

John H. Hankinson. 

John W. Harbison 

Rosslyn Farms, R. F. D., Carnegie, Pa. 

In sales department, Carnegie Steel Co., 921 Carnegie Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Married Olive Grey Bowman, October 17, 1907, at New Castle, Pa. 

H. Frazer Harris 

119 S. 1 6th St., Philadelphia. 

Devon, Pa. 

Married Virginia Blair Johnston, December 9, 1903. 

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Born, Anna Blair Harris, September 6, 1905, at Manchester, Mass. ; Henry 
Frazer Harris, Jr., August 29, 1907, at Manchester, Mass. 

Frazer writes that his present occupation is "looking for a farm." 

Frank G. Hasselman 

Last known address, Indianapolis, Ind. 

Edgar H. Havens 

Toms River, N. J. 

23 Central Ave., Cheltenham, Pa. 

With the Bell Telephone Co., 17th and Filbert Sts., Philadelphia. 

Is doing editorial work for "The Telephone News." 

Arthur D. Hayden 

Last known address, Toms River, N. J. 

Clifford L. Haynes 

122nd St. and 7th Ave., New York City. 

Robert C. Hedges 

968 Broad St., Newark, N. J. 

Treasurer of The Archibald-Klement Co., manufacturing silversmiths, 341 
Fifth Ave., New York City. 

S. Ross Hench 

Last known address, Harrisburg, Pa. 

Dougal Herr 

30 Emery St., Jersey City, N. J. 

Member of law firm Heine & Herr, i Exchange Place, Jersey City, N. J. 

30 Emory Street, Jersey City, N. J., October s, 1908. 
Dear Classmates: 

Your circular on behalf of the Quinquennial Record of 1903 is at hand, and I have filled 
it out as well as I could, and return it herewith. I note your request for some personal his- 
tory, but I hardly know what in my uneventful existence may be of interest to fellow members 
of our class. 

If I were one of the "proud fathers" you mention with such easy assurance, I might en- 
tertain (?) you with several pages about what they say when they take a bath, and how 
great an interest they take in the football team, and so on, but, as I say, my existence has 
been uneventful. 

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After graduation I started to study law, but in January, 1904, accepted a position with 
the Illinois Central Railroad in Chicago, where I stayed until June, 1904. After a few months 
more of study, I became in the fall of that year manager of the Kanouse Mountain Water 
Company, which concern was then in its infancy. Resigning this position in the spring of 
1905, I buckled down again to the study of law, and was admitted to the New Jersey Bar 
in June, igo6. I practised alone until the fall of 1907, when I formed a partnership with 
Mr. Casewell Heine (McGill '95), under the firm name of Heine & Herr. Our offices are 
at I Exchange Place, Jersey City, N. J. 

I am aware that this brief sketch is not one to interest most of my classmates, so many 
of whom have far out-distanced me in the experience of both the pain and the pleasure of 
life. But use this letter or any of the facts in it if you wish. 

Don't forget to come over to lunch at your earliest opportunity. My address on the 
'Phone is 237 Jersey. 

DouGAL Here. 

Note: Dougal's lunch invitation to the Class is a generous one, and it is to be hoped 
that as many as possible will accept. 

Richard E. Hermann 

15 Exchange Place, Jersey City, N. J. 

44 Pearsall Ave., Jersey City, N. J. 

Official Searcher of Titles for Hudson County, New Jersey. 

Married Anna Hering, at Jersey City. 

Dear Howard: 

I regret very much that I have not responded to your several urgent appeals for 
statistics before this. I have been wrapped up in business for the past few months and 
haven't had time for anything but work. 

You shall be surprised to hear that I have been married for some time. Several weeks 
ago I married Miss Anna Hering, of this city. 

I am still at the local Court House, having been appointed official Searcher of Titles for 
Hudson County. 

With best wishes. 

Pop. 



Charles C. Hewitt 

471 Hamilton Ave., Trenton, N. J. 

Instructor in History of Education and English in the New Jersey State 
Normal School, Trenton, N. J. 

Paxton Hibben 

Care of Department of State, Washington, D. C. 

American Legation, Bogota, Columbia. 

Charge d' Affaires ad interim of the United States at Bogota. 

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American Legation, Bogota, December 26, 1908. 
My dear Howard: 

The next time you put Pax in quotation marks in writing to me, I'll fix your clock, if 
I have to come all the way to Brooklyn to do it. I admit, with shame, that I have hidden my 
classic features with a beard and otherwise attempted to assume the outward dignities of 
position ; but that is no excuse for putting me in quotation marks. 

The trouble with diplomacy is that one goes everywhere but home, and sees everybody but 
the fellows. Since we graduated, I have been in Russia, El Salvador, Germany, Honduras, 
France, Italy, Monte Carlo, Switzerland, Turkey, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Eng- 
land, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Costa Rica, Poland, Mexico, Guatemala, Nica- 
ragua, Panama, Colombia, Harvard and other out-of-the-way places, but, from the time 
I entered diplomacy, I have spent ten days in New York and two weeks at home, and not been 
nearer the Little Burg than the Junction. Now that the Quinquennial draws near, I begin 
to make anew the old plans to get back. But I won't. T"here isn't any real use in thinking 
I will. 

As for what has happened to me since we graduated, the matter is simple enough: I 
went to Harvard for a while, studying law. Harvard men and other things, till they made me 
a Master of Arts. Then I got an engineering job, but couldn't make the figures come out 
right. So I went into diplomacy. I played a bit in Berlin, worked a bit in St. Petersburg, 
slaved a good deal in Mexico, and now I am here as Charge d'Affaires ad interim, thirty days 
by post from New York. The Russian government gave me the order of St. Stanislaus of 
the third class, and the Japanese government gave me the order of the Hidden Treasure of 
the fourth class, just to show that there were no hard feelings over the late unpleasantness 
between the two. I saw more or less of the so-called revolution in St. Petersburg, which re- 
minded me a good deal of a Rush, save that the inexpert Russian got himself killed every once 
in a while. 

When I passed through on my way to Mexico, I got myself admitted to practise at the 
Bar of the State of Indiana. I have tried to get married several times, without success, and 
am still on the market at greatly reduced prices — do not kick, bite or shy, will stand without 
hitching, and eat out of the hand. I speak six languages, just like a phonograph. I may 
state with confidence that I have no children. That's all. Ever, 

Pax. 

Sam Higginbottom 

Christian College, Allahabad, United Provinces, India. 
Teacher and missionary. 

Charles H. Higgins 

Commercial Trust Bldg., Jersey City, N. J. 

Member firm of Jacobus & Higgins, Civil Engineers, at above address. 

Morris M. HUtebeitel 

Care of Westinghouse Machine Co., 165 Broadway, New York City. 
718, i2th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 
Erecting Engineer. 

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Burt B. Hodgman 

516 Central Ave., East Orange, N. J. 

General Superintendent, National Water Main Cleaning Co., 27 William St., 
New York City. 

Married Grace Porter Wilding, July 11, 1907, at Fort Wayne, Ind. 

Walter F. Hollenbach 

2)'] Madison Ave., Jersey City, N. J. 

Professor of German, Jersey City High School. 

Married Kathryn Mae Herstine, August i, 1906, at Revere, Pa. 

Sidney T. Holt 

739 Broad St., Newark, N. J. 

40 Baldwin Ave., Newark, N. J. 

Secretary and Treasurer Frank Holt & Co. 

Married Elsie L. Rosseter, June 26, 1907, at Newark, N. J. 

Herbert W. Hopkins 

7 Bates Ave., Montclair, N. J. 
Curate, St. Luke's Church, Montclair. 

Daniel S. Horton 

117 W. 77th St., New York City. 

Secretary Sheffield Farms, Slawson, Decker Co.; 524 W. 57th St., New 
York City. 

Charles J. Howard 

Emporium, Pa. 

Treasurer of Cameron County, Pa. 

Married Mabel W. Cush, February, 1900, at Olean, N. Y. 

Born, Helen Elizabeth Howard, December 9, 1900; Charles Josiah Howard, 
April II, 1902; John Taylor Howard, September 4, 1904; Catharine Howard, 
March 7, 1906. 

A. Alexander Howell 

108 N. soth St., Philadelphia. 

Resident Physician University Hospital, 34th and Spruce Sts., Philadelphia. 

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Corwin Howell 

123 Broad St., Newark, N. J. 

Lawyer, 714 Prudential Bldg., Newark, N. J. 

Arthur S. Hull 

1205 Marion St., Scranton, Pa. 

Clover Club, Swissvale Sta., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Electrical Engineer. Apprentice with Westinghouse Electric and Mfg. Co. 

Floyd Hurlbut 

Arkport, N. Y. 

Principal of West Winfield, N. Y., High School. 

Married Margaret Esther Taylor, June 29, 1904, Arkport, N. Y. 

J. Edgar Hustead 

214 E. Fayette St., Uniontown, Pa. 
First National Bank Bldg., Uniontown, Pa. 

Secretary Hustead-Semons Coal and Coke Co., South Fayette Coke Co., and 
Hope Coke Co. 

Married Helen Watt Henderson, November 14, 1908, at Uniontown, Pa. 

Charles K. Imbrey 

P. O. Box 3, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 

1020 Lexington Ave., Altoona, Pa. 

Assistant Storekeeper at Altoona Machine Shops of the P. R. R. 

Edward H. Inman 

1209 Century Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. 
242 Peach Tree St., Atlanta, Ga. 

With Inman, Akers & Inman, 1209 Century Bldg., Atlanta, Ga., Cotton 
Merchants. 

Married Emily McDougald on June 19, 1901. 
Born, Hugh T. Inman II, May 23, 1902. 

John Ireland 

Johnstown, N. Y. 

Cor. of Melcher and 2nd Ave., Johnstown, N. Y. 

Member of firm of Ireland Bros., glove manufacturers, Johnstown, N. Y. 

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William R. Janeway 

5 St. Marks Place, New Brighton, Staten Island. 

Physician, House Staff of St. Luke's Hospital, New York City. 

Arthur C. Jenvey 

Care of New Jersey Zinc Co., South Bethlehem, Pa. 

Leonard Hall, South Bethlehem. 

Assistant Superintendent in New Jersey Zinc Co. 

South Bethlehem, Pa., October 7, 1908. 
My dear Hoivard: 

Your double-header communication reached me ten minutes ago ; so I think I am the 
early bird in answering. As you request a small autobiography, I will give it in a very few 
words. 

After graduation, I started with this company at Hazard, Pennsylvania, in the capacity 
of assistant to the civil engineer in charge of a great deal of construction work going on 
at that time. After the work was practically completed, I was sent to the Spelter Department 
to learn that branch of our business. Shortly afterwards I was transferred to this plant 
again in the Spelter Department, where I stayed in charge until the hard times, during last 
winter, shut us down. After we resumed operation, I was transferred to the O.xide Depart- 
ment, over which I am in charge at present. 

I am very sorry to say I have no news to give you of any of the men of the big Class. 

Drop me a line once in a while. Am, if you get time. I know you are mighty busy, 
but try and make a moment's time if you can. Yours, 

Potts. 

John A. Jess 

Springfield, 111. 
Seven Troughs, Nev. 

Secretary and Treasurer and General Manager Nevada and Illinois Leasing 
and Mining Co., Seven Troughs, Nev. Producing gold. 

James V. Johnson 

507 East 7th St., Little Rock, Ark. 

112 West Markham St., Little Rock, Ark. 

Lawyer, Junior Member of law firm of B. S. & J. V. Johnson. 

Little Rock, Arkansas, October 7, 1908. 
Mr. Howard W. Ameli, Secretary, 

1422 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. : 
My dear Howard: 

After two years' practice in the law, I have learned that promptness is considerable of 
a virtue ; therefore it is with pleasure that I forward the enclosed statistics at once. 

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My response to your second request in your circular must necessarily be short and rather 
commonplace ; for, after leaving college, I entered with five other '03 men, the Harvard Law 
School, where I acquired a working knowledge of my profession, and also, after a careful 
examination of it, found Harvard to be all that we supposed it to be when we were under- 
graduates in Princeton, namely, a not very interesting place. 

In July, 1906, after a disagreeable and mediaeval oral examination on the fundamentals of 
law, in open court, before the supreme judges, I was admitted to practise in Arkansas courts, 
where I am now eking out a living. 

I didn't get to the Fifth Reunion, because I couldn't "make it," as a Columbia man 
I knew said when he wanted to do something, and his rather well-to-do Aunt neglected to 
supply the requisite funds. But surely I shall be able to "make" the Decennial out of my own 
reserve. Sincerely yours, 

James V. Johnson. 

Bartlett F. Johnston 

225 E. German St., Baltiomre, Md. 

Sudbrook Park, Baltimore County, Maryland. 

With Claiborne Johnston & Co., General Contractors, 225 East German St., 
Baltimore, Md. 

Married Ellen Whitridge Shoemaker on Oct. 5, 1907, at "Burnside," Eccle- 
ston P. O., Md. 

Born Bartlett Forney Johnston, Jr., on August 5, 1908, at "Burnside," Eccle- 
ston P. O., Md. 

Harrison Johnston, Jr. 

Columbus, Miss. 

"The Montague," 412 W. nth St., Kansas City, Mo. 

Lawyer, Office 528 N. Y. Life Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. 

Married — Thomas Flyer — 40 Horse Power, 1907. Honk! Honk! 

Henry T. Kays 

67 High St., Newton, N. J. 

Lawyer, with office at No. 6 Park Place, Newton, N. J. 

Cadwell B. Keeney 

461 Monroe Ave., Elizabeth, N. J. 

Physician on staff in New York Post-Graduate Hospital. 

Charles W. Kennedy 

Merwick, Princeton, N. J. 

Instructor in English Literature, Princeton University. 

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Willis P. Kenney 

5123 Westminster Place, St. Louis, Mo. 
Artist. 

Richard R. Lake 

1708 Ridge Ave., Evanston, 111. 

Stock Broker, with Burnham, Butler & Co., 189 LaSalle St., Chicago. 

Evert O. Lansing 

Romulus, N. Y. 

Married Emma Grace Dey, on June 10, 1908, at Romulus, N. Y. 

Philip H. Lantz 

Care of Goodwin Car Co., 17 Battery Place, New York City. 
Prospect St., White Plains, N. Y. 

Assistant Superintendent Goodwin Car Co., 17 Battery Place, New York 
City. 

Louis W. Layton 

16 Lin wood Ave., Newton, N. J. 

The Colonnade, Indianapolis, Ind. 

District Manager for Commercial Department and District Traffic Chief for 
Traffic Department of American Telephone and Telegraph Co., 30th and N. J. 
Sts., Indianapolis, Ind. 

J. Stuart Lawrence 

4401 Baltimore Ave., Philadelphia. 

Physician, with office at 124 S. i8th St., Philadelphia. 

Henry G. Leach 

Cape May City, N. J. 

Den Danske, Landsmandsbank, Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Travelling Fellow of Harvard University for the Study of English and 
Scandinavian Literature. 

Den Danske Landmansbank, Copenhagen, Denmark, November i, 1908. 
My dear Howard: 

The enclosed blank has just been forwarded me, and I hurry to reply. As I have re- 
ceived no statistic blank I may not be able to give the exact information you want. 

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JULIA FLOYD PARKE 




ELIZABETH PARKE 




DOROTHY BARTON DARROW 




THOMAS KENDALL WADE 



KATHERINE PROBASCO GILCHRIST 



Willis P. Kenney 

5123 Wcstminsler i Mo. 

Artist. , 

Richard R. I, ok? 



Romulus, N. V. 
Warried Emma Grace D* 

Philip H. Lantz 

Care of Goodwin Car Co., 17 Battery Place, New York City. 

Prospect St., White Plains, N. Y. 

.\s<ista:it Simerintenc'cnt Goodwin Car Co., 17 Battervgjj'^-^.a^i^t iTlwk 

3>«flA9 HT3aASIJ3 

Loui» W. lAytoa 



D)^.^^■; 
Traffic D^i.: 
Sts., Indianajxi'is^ :■■<'. 

J. Stuart Lawrence 

4401 Baliimore Ave., Pbil£l«©3?flfta noTfiAa vHTonoa 
Physician; with office at 124 S. i8th St., Philadelphia. 

Henry G. Leach 

Cape May City, N. J. 

Den Danske, Landsmandsban': 11. Denmark. 

Travelling Fellow • *' "- • • • '■ -'•-''• ■■.( Vr...v..u .,„,i 

Scandinavian Litpratur ; 

Den Danske Landmansbank, Con- 1908. 

My dear Howard: 

The enclosed blank has just been forwarded ni<", snti \ hurry lo reply. As 1 have re- 
ceived no statistic blank I may not be able to give th-- oxact infonnatioti you want. 



3aAW JJAaM3>l aAMOHT 
TSlflHOJIO OOeAaOHl 3Mm3HTA« 



I am neither married, nor given in marriage, nor have I children, although the tempta- 
tion for all three, here in Denmark, is equally strong. 

Leaving college in 1903, I sailed for England and spent the summer "a la hobo" in 
England, Scotland and Wales. In the autumn I retired to Groton School, Groton, Mass., 
where, for two years, I lived the life of a rustic schoolmaster, spending most of my time 
being a boy again with the boys. For a good time it was, almost equal to Princeton. 

The summer of 1905 I spent abroad a la automobile, my expenses being paid. 

For the three years, 1905-08, I became a Harvard man, while studying for the degree of 
Doctor of Philosophy in English Philology. During this time I filled several minor offices 
in that University, studied the question of solidarity vs. individuality, and became more than 
ever convinced that, however good Harvard is for the graduate student, the Princeton col- 
lege idea is the best. 

In June, 1908, Harvard bestowed on me the degree of Ph.D. and shipped me abroad for 
one year as Hooper Travelling Fellow, the highest Fellowship in the gift of the University. 
It is my privilege to study English influences on Scandinavian Literature in the middle ages. 
I shall spend the year in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway; my address is Den Danske Land- 
mandsbank, Copenhagen, Denmark. I long to see a Princeton face, but it is unlikely. 

I enclose the biography of D. Miner Rogers, who may be in Turkey by this time. 

Wishing you all success, Howard, and sending my best regards to all the fellows when 
you see them, Sincerely yours, 

Henry Goddard Leach. 

Arthur C. Lederer 

Last known address, Plainfield, N. J. 

Vivian C. Lef twich 

211 S. Charles St., Baltimore, Md. 

Secretary and Treasurer Ware-Kramer Tobacco Co., 211 S. Charles St., 
Baltimore, Md. 

Edwin F. Leigh 

Care of Chicago Railway Equipment Co., Fisher Bldg., Chicago. 

729 E. 51st St., Chicago. 

Salesman with the above company. 

Married Maud W. Norris, on November 21, 1906, at Prescott, Ariz. 

Born, Edward M. Leigh, on October 8, 1907, at Chicago. 

November 17, 1908. 
My dear Howard: 

Complying with your request of more or less recent date, I am going to give you my au- 
tobiography to date. 

After graduation, I went, almost immediately, to Prescott, Arizona, and from there to 
Hooper Station, and was put in charge of the office work and store of the Mohawk Mine. 
About December ist, both the mine and I "went bust," and I was employed as office boy by 
the Prescott Electric Co., a gentle, unselfish little corporation, controlling all the public ser- 
vice utilities except the water for Prescott and immediate vicinity. Was with them until 

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April, 1906, when I was taken sick with typhoid fever. When I resigned my position I was 
cashier for the company. Came east again in June of that year, and in August became 
connected with the Chicago Railway Equipment Co., selling the railroads several devices we 
manufacture. In November of the same year I returned to Prescott and was married. We 
have one child, Edward Morris Leigh. Met very few Princeton men while west. Saw Paul 
Welling in Phoenix, Arizona, where he was recuperating his health. Our Princeton Club 
here in Chicago is not very active, but there are a number of the boys here. Bob Candee is 
to be married next Monday, the 21st inst. 

If you can find anything of interest in this letter, shall be both pleased and surprised. 
With sincere good wishes for your success in your profession, and that you may be one of the 
noted legal lights at no late date, I am 

Yours sincerely, 

Edwin F. Leigh. 

Philip N. Leroy 

St. Martins, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. 

Assistant Treasurer of the Employers' Indemnity Company of Philadelphia 
(Liability Insurance), West End Trust Bldg., Philadelphia. 

Howard R. Levick, Jr. 

Ogontz, Pa. 

Engineer, with Cinco Estrellas Mining Co., Pinos-Lacatecas, Mexico. 

Julius Levy 

Last known address, 1 19 Littleton Ave., Newark, N. J. 

Alfred S. Lewis 

305 N. Emporia Ave., Wichita, Kans. 

Hachita, N. M. 

Manager of the Red Hill Mines, Hachita, N. M. 

Frank H. Little 

1 1 E. 24th St., New York City. 

507 W. 179th St., New York City. 

With George Batten Co., 11 E. 24th St., New York City. General Adver- 
tising. 

Married Tacey May Bates, on November 11, 1908, at The Ansonia, New 
York City. 

P. Paul Lobit 

Last known address, 1527 Broadway, Galveston, Tex. 
Care of Mishot Bros. & Co., Galveston, Tex. 

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Breckinridge Long 

401 Commonwealth Trust Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. 

3404 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo. 

Lawyer, with office 401 Commonwealth Trust Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. 

St. Louis, Mo., November S, 1908. 
Mr. Howard W. Ameli, 

141 Broadway, New York, 

My dear Howard: 

Your circular, addressed to the members of the Class of 1903, came some time ago, and I 
have not had the opportunity, until now, of answering it, strange as this statement may sound. 
But it will give me great pleasure to contribute my little tale to the rest, and it will give 
me much more pleasure to get the Record and learn of the whereabouts and the accomplish- 
of the members of the great 1903 Class since our disbanding of 5 years ago. 

After graduation I cominenced to study law and was admitted to the Bar before I had 
graduated from the law school in January, 1906. 

I finished at law school, the law department of the Washington University, one of those 
great educational institutions in this far away metropolis, in June, 1906. I intended to com- 
mence to practice in the fall, but instead of doing so I took a trip around the world, getting 
back in June, 1907. I went with Henry Munro 1904, and in the course of our wanderings 
we covered most of the then known world. We had the names and addresses of numerous 
Princeton men throughout Turkey, India, and Eastern Asia, and who were engaged in mis- 
sionary work. We fully intended to call on all of them and pay our respects. But we had 
so much else to keep us that we failed to connect with any of them. We had several interest- 
ing experiences, among them, and the one which probably is the most memorable, was my 
getting lost in the jungles of Burma up near the border of Siam. We were on a tiger hunt, 
and had been away from all civilization for three weeks, travelling around the country in bul- 
lock carts and carrying a train of natives. I got separated from the party, and was all alone, 
wandering in the general direction of the nearest railroad, forty miles away. I could not 
speak the language and the only word which I could say that was intelligible to the natives 
was the name of the town on the railroad. It was Nayaunglebin. It may not seem possible 
to you that I could pronounce that, but I finally reached my destination. I was lost two days 
and they had the militia, about forty-five in number, searching for me the whole time. The 
escapade was all written up in the papers of Rangoon, and created quite a little excitement. 
It is not often that one gets lost in that part of the country, and it is seldom that they are as 
fortunate as I was in returning safely. When Henry Munro asked the commandant about 
me the officer replied that it had occurred once before in his twenty years' service, but they 
found the man the next day. Unfortunately, however, they could not find his head. 

We met several Yale men, but nothing happened that was exciting after we left Burma, 
and we wandered through the Straits Settlements, China and Japan. 

On my return I opened my law office, and have been paying strict attention to business. 
I mingled in politics a little, and tried to go to the State Legislature, but was defeated for the 
nomination at the primaries, and now that Missouri has gone Republican I don't see much 
chance in the political field for a young Democrat. So for the future I am strictly practising 
law and paying no attention to politics or any other diversions. 

Sincerely yours, 

Breckinridge Long. 

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John C. Long 

261 1 E. 24th St., Kansas City, Mo. 

With Long Construction Co., 106 R. A. Long Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. . 

Kansas City, Mo., November 20, 1908. 
Mr. Howard W. Ameli, Secretary Class of 1903, 

1422 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
My dear Howard: 

I have not had an opportunity until now of "telling more about myself and my wander- 
ings" since receiving your circular. Unfortunately my wanderings have not brought me often 
to Princeton, and so I have not been able to keep as closely in touch with Princeton and the 
Class of 1903 as I would have liked. I did get back to the triennial reunion and to the Yale 
game of this year. 

I do not know any interesting things about other members of our Class, because I have 
not seen any of them. And so, of necessity, I must tell only of myself in this letter. 

After leaving Princeton, I secured a position in the drafting room of The Riter-Conley 
Manufacturing Co., in Pittsburgh, steel m.anufacturers. I remained with them only a few 
months. I then went out to Kansas City, where I have been almost all of the time since. 
I was first associated with Waddell & Hedrick, Consulting Engineers. My work was partly 
in the office and partly in the field. My field work at times took me away from Kansas City — 
once to New Orleans. I was one of the field engineers in the Inter-City Viaduct in Kansas 
City. In July, 1907, I became associated with a general contractor and remained with him 
until April of this year. At that time Ralph P. Swofford, Princeton 1901, and I, organized the 
Long Construction Co. The object of this company is to do a general building construction. 
We are still very young as a firm, and so we cannot speak of any success. However, we 
hope to make of it a strong and successful company. 

I especially invite all the members of our Class to visit me at 106 R. A. Long Building, 
Kansas City, Mo., when they have the opportunity. As I have said, I have very little chance 
of meeting my classmates, and visits from them will be appreciated. 

I trust, Mr. Secretary, that I have not delayed too long in writing this letter. My great- 
est regret is that I cannot tell some interesting things about my classmates. 

Thanking you for your efforts in my behalf, and assuring you that though far from 
Princeton I recognize your services to the Class of 1903, I remain 

Sincerely yours, 

John C. Long. 

Joseph W. Losey 

1612 Ferry St., La Crosse, Wis. 

Claim Agent, C. B. & Q. Ry. Co. and La Crosse Street Ry. Co., wtih offices 
No. no N. 4th St., La Crosse, Wis. 

Married Jua Higbee, on November 6, 1907, at La Crosse, Wis. 

Frederic B. Lott 

95 Liberty Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y. 

Superintendent Metropolitan Division of the U. S. Casualty Co., 141 Broad- 
way, New York City. 



E. S. Lovett 

Last known address, 1320 Stout St., Denver, Col. 

Julius M. Lowenstein 

149 Broadway, New York City. 

251 W. 95th St., New York City. 

Lawyer, member of law firm of Lowenstein & Rossman. 

Elmer B. Mason 

Last known address. The Judson, 53 Washington Square, New York City. 

J. Dudley Mason 

808 Fidelity Bldg., Baltimore, Md. 
909 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, Md. 
With MacKubin, Goodrich & Co., Bankers, no E. German St., Baltimore. 

Roscoe P. McCIave 

Grantwood, N. J. 

Civil Engineer, firm McClave & McClave. 

Stephen W. McClave, Jr. 

Grantwood, N. J. 

Civil Engineer, firm McClave & McClave. 

Elliott S. McCurdy 

Princeton Club, New York City. 
Angels Camp, Cal. 

Mining Engineer of Utica Mining Co., and Engineer of Angels Power and 
Water Co., Angels Camp, Cal. 

J. James MacDonald 

First National Bank Bldg., Princeton, N. J. 
Law and Real Estate. 

John S. McKaig 

300 S. Linden Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Nevada City, Cal. 

Consulting Engineer for Greystone Mining Co., Middle Yuba Mining Co., 
and Arctic Mining Co., Nevada City, Cal. 

October 12, igo8. 
My dear Howard: 

I have wandered pretty well over the United States since leaving college, but have failed 
to run across any 1903's except in the eastern cities. This mining games takes a lot of trav- 

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elling and roughing with it, and to illustrate it, I'll mention some af the places and conditions 
I have been in and undergone. A year in Idaho, twenty-five miles from the railroad, in a 
gold and silver mine. Then two years in New York City, working for the mining engineer- 
ing degree. After that, a winter on the Mesabi Iron Mining Range of Northern Minnesota, 
where the mercury dropped to 55° below zero, and then to the hot Nevada desert, at Gold- 
field, where money poured around like water, and all the crooks in the country were gath- 
ered together. Three months of the following winter, living in tents in Arizona, where the 
thermometer registered 120° above zero in March, and the tarantulas, centipedes, Gila inon- 
sters and rattle-snakes were as thick as simple students at Commencement. The last comes 
best, for the ideal climate and beautiful scenery of California is second only to the east for 
enjoying life, especially when you know that in a few years it will be back to God's country, 
to live and to work. As ever. 

Spike McKaig. 

Waiiam H. McKelvy 

Last known address, 1322 Walnut St., Philadelphia. 

Robert C. McNamara 

Care of Scott, Foresman & Co., 378 Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111. 
5400 Jefferson Ave., Chicago, 111. 
Office manager for Scott, Foresman & Co. 

Married Elva L. A. McCormick, November 26, 1904, at Medina, N. Y. 
Born, Ruth Eleanor McNamara, November 28, 1906; Robert Charles Mc- 
Namara, Jr., December 27, 1907. 

Thomas S. McPheeters, Jr. 

3824 Delmar Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 

Lawyer, member of firm of McPheeters & Burkham, 608 Rialto Bldg., St. 
Louis, Mo. 

October 5, igoS. 
My dear Howard: 

I was mighty glad to hear that our Class was to publish a Quinquennial Record, and 
while I have no spicy items of interest in regard to any of our classmates or myself, I thought 
that I would show that my interest is as keen as ever, by telling you all that I know, and no 
one can do more that that. 

There are several 1903 men living here, all of whom I see frequently. Breckinridge Long 
is practising law now, after having traveled around the world. Ray Prewitt is promoting 
large enterprises and bleeding the poor public as well as himself. Bob Burkham ,who is a 
Benedict of ten months' standing, is practising law with me, and is chairman of the executive 
committee of "The Young Men's Taft Republican Marching Club," or some such organiza- 
tion, and is growing very stout and dignified. Erastus Wells and Alec. Gait are in financial 
circles, and Schweickhardt is teaching at one of the High Schools. I am still unmarried, 
and have no prospects, but am pegging away at the law and making good progress. I was 
nominated for the State Legislature on the Democratic ticket last June, at the direct prima- 
ries. My ex-roommate and classmate, "Pop" Long, was one of my opponents. On account 

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of our former and present personal relations, our respective campaigns were conducted on 
a high moral basis, and there was no casting of one another into the "Ananias Club." 

I have lived in St. Louis ever since leaving college, and have been able to get east but 
once since leaving. Edgar Palmer, Percy Pyne, Courtlandt Nicoll, John Armstrong, Al 
Schultz, Regis Chauvenet, Harry Gorman and a few others have shown us their smiling 
faces at intervals, and been wined and dined by us. It broke my heart to miss our Fifth Re- 
union last June, but our growing practise made it impossible to get east. But the Third, 
which I did attend, was a never-to-be-forgotten occasion. 

This is a brief summary of what I know of interest about 1903 men in this part of the 
country. With warmest personal regards and best wishes for all in the Class, I remain 

Yours as ever, 

T. S. McPheeters, Jr. 

E. Leroy Mack 

Last known address, Plainfield, N. J. 

Alexander R. Martin 

Last known address, Thetford Mines, P. O., Canada. 

George R. Maverick 

Last known address, San Antonio, Tex. 

Arthur I. Meigs 

1522 Walnvtt St., Philadelphia. 
Radnor, Pa. 

Architect, with firm of Mellor & Meigs, 910 Croyer Bldg., Philadelphia. 

John O. Merwin 

Last known address, 1322 Walnut St., Philadelphia. 

Benjamin E. Messier 

517 E. State St., Trenton, N. J. 

32 Montclair Ave., Montclair, N. J. 

Lawyer, 256 Broadway, New York City. 

Married, Emelyn Frances Darrah, September 23, 1908, at Trenton, N. J. 

James R. Miller 

4741 Bayard St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Lawyer, with firm of Patterson, Sterret & Acheson, 1759 Frick Bldg. Annex, 
Pittsbtirgh. 

My dear Howard: 

When I received your postal more than a month ago, asking me to send in my letter at 
once, I put it aside and immediately forgot all about it, owing to the fact that I have been 
up to my ears in work lately. To-day, however, I ran across it again. But I suppose the 

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book has already gone to press without my life history. It wouldn't have made very inter- 
esting reading, anyhow, as there has been a dearth of events which would have headlined well 
— no marriages, births or deaths. Out here in Pittsburgh we do nothing much but work in the 
gloom, praying for the arrival of the days of smoke consumers. 

As a matter of fact, though, we (to use the editorial style) are very well satisfied with 
the profession of law, and we daily get the keenest kind of delight out of its practise ; so 
that the hard work cuts no figure at all. And through it all, we are helped and so much 
inspired by the friends we made, the thoughts we had, and the ideals we gained at the good 
old college. 

Best wishes to all you fellows in the big city. 

Sincerely, 

James K. Miller. 

Raymond B. Mixsell 

216 Spring Garden St., Easton, Pa. 

House Surgeon, City Hospital, Blackwell's Island, N. Y. 

Edward T. Moore 

Last known address, 76 Passaic Ave., Passaic, N. J. 

Arthur S. Morris 

1213 Judson Ave., Evanston, 111. 

Assistant Engineer, Chicago and Northwestern Ry. Co., Evanston, 111. 

Thomas P. Mumford 

Last known address, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

George E. Munger 

Last known address, 9 Drexel Square, Chicago, 111. 

George H. Nevius 

235 Broad St., Red Bank, N. J. 

Salesman, with The Arlington Company, No. 725 Broadway, New York City. 

Married Ethel Finch Davis, on February 14, 1905, at Red Bank, N. J. 

Red Bank, N. J. December 13, 1908. 
My dear Howard: 

I know that I ought to be able, after five and one-half years contact with life in the 
wide-wide-world, to write something at least somewhat interesting to a few of our noble 
Class, but the fact is that the experiences worth relating are not those which I would care 
to publish (believe me, kind sir, nothing shady is implied), and my achievements outside the 
above-mentioned Class are none at all. 

I have, however, taken the "one great step" and have been married nearly three years. I 
believe that some feiv others of our Class have both followed or preceded me in this act, 
among whom are many with greater flow of language, with which to voice the many joys 
of this condition. 

My business has at times taken me through the Middle West and South, where I have 
been classed among the "drummers" from whose influence all good mothers withdraw their 



precious pets. As Frank Mclntyre says in "The Travelling Salesman," "Us and the sou- 
brettes, when we are on the square, who will believe us?" However, I am now safely out 
of this field of temptation, and get home every night from my city salesman position. 

Yours truly, 

Harold Nevius. 
William A. Newell 
Mount Holly, N. J. 

Physician, staff of Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia. 
For particulars in regard to "Doc," see Bill Blakeman's letter. 

Courtlandt Nicoll 

149 Broadway, New York City. 
18 E. 50th St., New York City. 
Lawyer, with B. Nicoll & Co., 149 Broadway, New York City. 

Gustavus Ober, Jr. 

1217 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Md. 

Assistant Treasurer, G. Ober& Sons Co., Cotton Brokers. 

Secretary, White Hall Agricultural Co., 309 Fidelity Bldg., Baltimore, Md. 

Edward A. Odell 

Box 676, San Juan, Porto Rico. 
Ministry, Presbyterian Church. 
Married Mary Irene Diehl, on June 2, 1908, at Philadelphia. 

John S. O'Neill 

184 Hawthorne Place, Yonkers, N. Y. 
Real Estate Broker. 

Morrison J. Oswald 

Berwick, Pa. 

Gwilym Owen 

Last known address, 346 Main St., Johnstown, Pa. 

Edgar Palmer 

55 Wall St., New York City. 
10 W. 43rd St., New York City. 

Mr. Howard W. Ameli, Secretary Class of 1903, 

141 Broadway, New York City, 
My dear Howard: 

In answer to your letter requesting that I give you an outline of what has happened since 
1903, I submit the following, and hope that it will cover what you wish : 

After graduating from the Scientific School at Princeton, I entered the Princeton Elec- 

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trical School, and spent two years there, graduating in June, 1905. In July, 1905, I entered 
the employment of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., at Pittsburgh, as one 
of their engineering apprentices, testing motors, generators, etc. I left Pittsburgh in Jan- 
uary, 1906, and travelled in Egypt until April 1st, when I allied myself with The Empire 
Zinc Company of Colorado in the capacity of Electrical Engineer. Here I remained until 
November, when I came to New York and entered the New Jersey Zinc Company as 
Assistant to the General Manager. This position I held until October i, 1907, when I was 
made Assistant to the President, which position I hold to-day. 

Very sincerely yours, 

Edgar Palmer. 

Norman H. Parke 

Great Bend, Pa. 

General Manager and Director of Black Horn Leather Co., Great Bend, Pa. 
Director of First National Bank of Hallstead, Pa. Also Mayor of Great 
Bend, Pa. 

Married Julia Floyd Phyfe, on April 26, 1903, at 246 W. 73rd St., New 
York City. 

Born, Julia Floyd Parke, on April 27, 1904, in Philadelphia; Elizabeth 
Parke, on July 26, 1905, in Great Bend, Pa. 

Great Bend, Pa., January 23, 1909. 
Mr. Howard W. Ameli, 

1422 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., 
My dear Howard: 

Enclosed find report of the oldest living delinquent. The pictures of two fairly respec- 
table appearing youngsters — thanks to their mother — will follow by Sunday or Monday's post. 
Mrs. Parke is in New York and I am unable to locate the pictures in question. 

As to the letter, do you actually want the history of nothing more or less than a tramp — 
up until the time I became engaged? That is experience with Uncle Sam's outfit in the West 
Indies, etc., or what period do you want to cover? A complete history would not look well 
in print. I know you do not want that, but perhaps "Making a Living for Four Years with 
the Gloves," or some such line of hot-air, would be to your fancy. If you find time, write 
me the letter, and I will sign it. 

With best regards for all the Class, believe me, 

Faithfully yours, 

Norman H. Parke. 

Harry O. Parsons 

Crescent Club, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

8ist St. and 2nd Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Stock broker, with offices No. 215 Montague St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Waiiam S. Pate 

100 William St., New York City. 
403 Casino Ave., Cranford, N. J. 

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Member of firm of Pate & Robb, Fire Insurance, No. loo William St., New 
York City. 

Married Irene Bailey, on November 14, 1906, in Camden, N. J. 
Born, Barbara Wastell Pate, on October 30, 1907, in Camden, N. J. 

George Paull 

5904 Rippey Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

General Manager of Sales, Rail and River Coal Co., No. 1015 Fulton Bldg., 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Married May Stewart Dickey, on April 25, 1905, at Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Born, Nancy Lea Paull, on February 8, 1906, at Bellaire, Ohio; William 
Dickey Paull, on October 2, 1908, at Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Forrest G. Pearson 

1825 E. Boston Ave., Philadelphia. 
5103 Newhall St., Germantown, Pa. 

With Joseph T. Pearson, Lumber and Packing Boxes, No. 1825 E. Boston 
Ave., Philadelphia. 

Philadelphia, November 10, igo8. 
Classmates: 

To recount all that has happened since we graduated would take much time and labor, 
therefore just a few words. After leaving college I was given a position by my father in his 
lumber and packing box business and have been fortunate enough to hold the job and be 
kept busy since that time. 

It is my good fortune to be living within easy access of Princeton, consequently I have 
taken in all the games, both baseball and football, attended all reunions and mid-winter 
dinners. 

It has been a great pleasure at these times to renew friendships and talk over our pasts 
and prospects in the future. I trust that we may be spared to join one another at these 
times for many years. 

With best wishes for the success of the members of 1903, I am, 

Sincerely, 

Forrest G. Pearson. 

Eugene T. Pelham 

47 Riverside Drive, New York City. 

Insurance Broker, with offices 34th St. and 5th Ave., New York City. 
Married Victoria Beatrice Strittmatter, on June 29, 1908, at Worthington 
Memorial, Ardsley, N. Y. 

Edward D. Perry 

Last known address, Willsboro, Essex County, New York. 



John M, Perry 

Newtown, Long Island, P. O., Elnihurst. 

With Sloan, Howell & Co., Iron, Steel and Supplies, No. 30 Church St.. 
New York City. 

Alfred S. Phillips 

Post Office, Stratford, Conn. 
130 S. 8th Ave., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 

Engineer, with New York Bridge Department, Borough of Bronx, New 
York City. 

Ellis L. Pierson 

Broad Street National Bank Bldg., Trenton, N. J. 

493 W. State St., Trenton, N. J. 

Lawyer, with offices in Broad Street National Bank Bldg., Trenton. 

Norman B. Pitcaim 

116 Union Station, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
726 Cooper St., Camden, N. J. 
Engineer. 

Elliott W. Pitkin 

95 Locust Hill Ave., Yonkers, N. Y. 

With Blair & Co., Bankers, No. 24 Broad St., New York City. 

Dear Am: 

I think it is up to me to keep still in the class record book and let those talk who have 
something to say. 

After a couple of years prospecting jobs I drifted down to Wall Street, where there is 
so much money, which is so hard to get a hold of, and I have been there ever since. Still 
working for Blair & Co., single, unattached and happy. 

Yours as ever, 

Elliott M. Pitkin. 
February 4, 1909. 

Abner H. Piatt 

127 St. Mark's Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Assistant Treasurer of Federal Sugar Refining Co., No. 138 Front St., 
New York City. 

February 3, 1909. 
My dear A melt: 

The story of my life since I left Princeton is not very thrilling. 

Circumstances (not the faculty) compelled me to quit at the end of Freshman year. 

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In September of that year (1900) I went to work in the American Exchange National Bank 
(New York) and held down a job as runner until February, 1902. Then I was handed a 
position with the Federal Sugar Refining Company, which had just been incorporated. I 
was the first employee, in fact, which accounts for my being assistant treasurer to-day. 

I am not married, nor even engaged, and have no troubles that money wouldn't cure. 

Yours very truly, 

"Tommy" Platt. 

Thomas F. Plunkett 

East St., Pittsfield, Mass. 

With Pontoosic Woolen Manufacturing Co., Pittsfield, Mass. 

Bernard E. Pollak 

Block Pollak Iron Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 

401 1 Beechwood Ave., Rose Hill, Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
General Manager Block Pollak Iron Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Married Fannie Marcus, on March 29, 1904, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Born, Gertrude M. Pollak, on September 3, 1907, at Cincinnati, Ohio. 

WUlard H. Porter 

501 Delaware Ave., Wilmington, Del. 

With Passenger Dept., Penna. R. R., Broad St. Station, Philadelphia. 

Ray P. Prewitt 

4917 Berlin Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 

With Grayson Brokerage Co., No. 405 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. 

Percy R, Pyne, II 

263 Madison Ave., New York City. 

Member of firm of Pyne, Kendall & Hollister, Bond Brokers, 55 Wall St., 
New York City. 

Paul J. Ralph 

27 Beaver St., New York City. 
409 Elmwood Ave., BufiFalo, N. Y. 

Resident Engineer at BufiFalo for the Empire Engineering Corporation, Foot 
of Porter Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. 

409 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y., November i, 1908. 
Dear Howard: 

A word in answer to your request for information about my doings and whereabouts 
since June, 1903. Here follows my simple story. 

In October, 1903, I went to Boston, entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
and graduated in 1905 with the degree of S.B. in Naval Architecture. In spite of considerable 

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work, we had good times in Boston. There were nearly a dozen Princeton men in Tech at 
that time. I roomed with Bill Blakeman and Ed Barron and in the same house were Artie 
Pratt '04 and Carl Edwards '00. Soon after leaving Boston I got a job as an iron worker 
in Cramps' Shipyard, Philadelphia, stayed there till September, 1906, when I went as a 
draftsman to the New York Shipbuilding Company in Camden, N. J., remaining there for 
about nine months. From Camden I came to Buffalo to take a position with the Empire 
Engineering Corporation, a contracting firm engaged in dredging principally and in whatever 
work accompanies such operations. My official title is Resident Engineer. I am not married, 
and am unable to predict on that subject. 

With best wishes for the progress of the Record, I remain. 

Sincerely yours, 

Paul J. Ralph. 

Andrew L. Randell 

Sherman, Tex. 

421 North Crockett St., Sherman, Tex. 

Lawyer, member of firm of Randell & Randell, North Side Square, Sher- 
man, Tex. 

Married Vera Harrison, on March 10, 1909, at Sherman, Tex. 

Ralph E. Rearick 

204 N. Main St., Chambersburg, Pa. 

Stamford, Conn. 

Teaching in the King School, No. 24 Broad St., Stamford, Conn. 

Married Laura Helen Bricker, on September 18, 1907, at Chambersburg, Pa. 

John Rankin 

Last known address, 119 W. 77th St., New York City. 

Robert B. Reed 

Clearfield, Pa. 
Beirut, Syria. 
Teaching in Syrian Protestant College, Beirut, Syria. 

Arthur B. Reeve 

450 Third St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Managing Editor "Our Own Times" (an annual history of the world). 
Contributor to magazines. 

Married Margaret A. Wilson, January 31, 1906, at Trenton, N. J. 
Born, Walter Wilson Reeve, September 20, 1907, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Charles B. Reeves 

100 W. Lexington St., Baltimore, Md. 
926 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Md. 



Lawyer, Claim Agent Consolidated Gas, Electric Light and Power Co. of 
Baltimore, too W. Lexington St., Baltimore, Md. 

Dear Howard: 

I suppose the kind of a letter desired is a short sketch of what each one has been doing 
since leaving Princeton. I have worked for only one concern since graduation, namely, the 
Consolidated Gas, Electric Light and Power Company of Baltimore, and am at present its 
Claim Agent. My duties also include a certain amount of legal work. Studied law after 
business hours at the University of Maryland and was admitted to the Bar in November, 1905. 

Am single, have no children, and am as handsome as when I received the vote as the 
handsomest man in 1903, although somewhat more bald-headed. 

For further details of my personal affairs, please consult the columns of any daily paper. 
They're full of me. 

As ever, yours, 

Charles B. Reeves. 



Frederick N. Remick 

Sgo Ellicott Square, Buffalo, N. Y. 
1006 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. 

Member of firm of Lupfer & Remick, Civil Engineers, 590 Ellicott Square, 
Buffalo, N. Y. 

Buffalo, N. Y., November 11, 1908. 
Me. Howard W. Ameli, Secretary, 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Dear Sir: 

Complying with your request for a letter giving a brief account of my movements during 
recent years, I would say that immediately after leaving Princeton I went to Cornell, where 
I took three years' special work in Engineering. 

I then entered the Engineering Department of the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railway 
Company, acting in various capacities in the construction of their ninety-mile extension 
from Wellesville to Buffalo, during the last eighteen months of the time having charge 
successively of the Arcade, Sardinia and Hamburg residencies, as "Resident Engineer." 

On the completion of this work in April, 1907, Mr. E. P. Lupfer, M., A.M., S., C.E., who 
had been Chief Engineer in charge of the construction of this ninety-mile extension, and 
the writer formed a copartnership for the general practice of engineering, with offices at 590 
Ellicott Square, Buffalo, New York. 

Since that time our business has steadily grown, and while it takes me out of the city 
much of the time, I feel that I am permanently located in Buffalo, and that I shall not be 
subjected to the uncertainty of employment and changing of headquarters which is char- 
acteristic of the life of the average engineer. 

Yours truly, 
F. N. R./L. L. F. N. Remick. 

Note. — Since receiving the above we have received the announcement of his 
engagement to Miss Esther O'Hanlon, of Geneva, N. Y. 

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Humphrey J. Rendall 

Lincoln University, Pa. 

Broomall, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. 

Presbyterian Minister. 

Broomall, Pa., January 9, 1909. 
Dear Classmates: 

Greetings to one and all. I often allow my thoughts to drift back to the good old days 
and times at Princeton, and recall your faces and frolics, and sometimes even "in persona" 
visit the old place, with its associations and memories. Unlike many others, who studied 
for the ministry, I stuck to the old place, and simply moved my household effects over to 
the Seminary, where I held forth for three years. Have been pastor of a church near 
Philadelphia for two years now, and despite the cares and worries of the parish, I thoroughly 
enjoy life, swing a tennis racket now and then for practice, and grow happy, if not rich. 
With best wishes to all, 

Humphrey J. Rendall '03. 

Harvey C. Rentschler 

Hamburg, Pa. 
Columbia, Mo. 
Married Margaret Bender, on August 13, 1904, at Garfield, Pa. 

15 Allen Place, Columbia, Mo., January 11, 1909. 
Mr. Howard Ameli, 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Dear Classmate: 

I will give you what I think you probably want, namely, what I am doing and have been 
doing since leaving college. I am here in the University of Missouri, teaching in the 
Department of Physics. For the last three years I was at Johns Hopkins University, taking 
graduate work in Physics, and got my doctor's degree last June. The first year after 
graduation I had the Experimental Science Fellowship at Princeton and the following year 
I was Instructor in Physics at Princeton. 

I hope this includes all the information you are seeking. If it does not I shall be glad 
to give you whatever more you wish. 

I am, very sincerely, your classmate, 

H. C. Rentschler. 

Sidney J. Repplier 

4521 Chester Ave., Philadelphia. 
328 S. i6th St., Philadelphia. 
Physician, with offices at above address. 

328 South Si.xteenth Street, Philadelphia, November 30, 1908. 
My dear Hovuard: 

As you may remember, force of circumstances compelled me to leave Princeton three 
years before I wanted to, so that my wanderings began at a very early age. Fate led me 

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at once to the large and speedy city of Philadelphia, where, for four years, I groped among 
cadavers, capsules and carbuncles in the University of Pennsylvania. Stewart Lawrence 
appeared a year later, and in three years Blais Cole and Bill Newell blew in. When four 
years had passed, I was turned out with a diploma. 

I then served three months as Resident Physician at the Children's Seashore House, 
Atlantic City, and four months at Girard College, Philadelphia, before beginning my term 
of eighteen months at the Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia. At the end of that time, 
through the kind offices of Dr. S. S. Stryker, Class of '63, I was appointed Physician to the 
First American Mission to Fez. Mr. Gummere, a cousin of Dr. Stryker, is the American 
Minister to Morocco, and it was as a member of his staff that I spent three months in 
Morocco, and of these, two in the Capital, Fez. From there I went to Vienna, taking six 
weeks for the trip through Italy. In that festive village I stayed six months, studying more 
medicine and learning the "Merry Widow" waltz. 

About fourteen months ago I came back to this country, and since then I have been 
patiently waiting for the goods to deliver themselves. The best thing I have done is to 
become engaged to Miss Charlotte W. Neall, of Chestnut Hill. 

When I started this thing, I thought that my autobiography would occupy much more 
space, but I can't think of another darn thing. 

Very truly yours, 
' Sidney J. Reppliee. .. 

Henry C. Reynolds 

431 E. Ridge St., Marquette, Mich. 

Haughton, Mich. 

Studying at the Michigan College of Mines. 

Charles S. Richardson, Jr. 

Lawrenceville, N. J. 

Teaching at the Lawrenceville School. 

Thad Weed Riker 

247 Summer St., Stamford, Conn. 

Studying temporarily at Oxford University, England. 

American Club, Oxford, November 22, 1908. 
Dear Ameli: 

I am one of the late-comers in the Class of 1903, whom you don't know from Adam, 
but will straightway (if you're of a curious turn of mind) take down the Class Album and 
gaze sympathetically at the very "bum" imitation of my phiz which Brother Pach did once 
perpetrate. (As Dear Richardson would say, "I guess that's very poor.") You ask me 
for some autobiographical data, and so, regardless of my insignificance as a member of 
the class of Byles and Hibben (How would the Colonel like this combination?), I stand 
obedient to your commands. It's very appropriate in my case to speak of "wanderings," for 
I've zigzagged across the great pond till I sometimes wonder just where I caught myself 
and how. The only tangible output of all this is an article in the American Historical 
Review for July, and the research degree which I've just taken here at Oxford on the 
subject: "Henry Fox, Lord Holland, or How Graft Was Worked in the Eighteenth 
Century." If possible, I shall have it published before long, and then there will be a chance 

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for every member of 1903 to show his class spirit by promptly — well, I spare you the 
uncomfortable details. Maybe I've said enough to interest the budding politicians anyway. 

Incidentally I may add that I've travelled over most of Europe ; but the only member 
of '03 I've been lucky enough to run across was the imperturbable Charley Townsend — now a 
"reverend" and with dignity not a wit diminished in the progress of time. I didn't ask him 
if he still believed in a hell for all non-Episcopalians, because, being a member of that sect 
myself (Note the gentle irony of the word "sect"), I was afraid he might suspect me of some 
heresies. But joking aside, Charley's a good sort, even if he's not like his historical namesake, 
and I hope he got back the health he was going to Europe to seek. All other Princetonians 
I've met were of other classes, but we've always had more sons of Old Nassau here at 
Oxford than men of any other single college. You will be interested to know that the 
American Club now drinks the flowing bowl to the tune of "Here's to you, my jovial 
friend," and men have even been thrust through car windows — to the immortal scandal of 
Oxford, but to the joy of the homesick Princetonian. Suffice it to say in closing this chapter 
of my somewhat checkered "career" that I've had the time of my life over here, and though 
Oxford lacks the inspiring atmosphere and endearing memories of Old Nassau, I can't help 
wishing Woodrow's quadrangle idea would be introduced into Princeton — not as a patent 
medicine, but rather for its own intrinsic merits. 

But I musn't forget that this letter is a biography, not a brief. I've just remembered that 
I spent several months of 1904-5 studying history in the Harvard Graduate School, and saw 
a lot of Jimmy Johnson '03 — also a late-comer, but one of the finest ever ! 

Now, if I make this letter any longer, I shall be justly accused of garrulousness or 
egotism — and there's no reason for the latter, since I'm still an unappreciated bachelor. 
That reminds me that I object to the amount of space you accord to the children of proud 
"papas"; and judging from the number of lines, I take it you're looking for a litter or two 
in some cases. But that's beside the mark. Here's to '03, and with heartiest wishes 
to yourself, I remain, 

Yours ever, 

Thad. W. Riker (alias "Rike"). 

P. S. — When I'm able to earn an "honest penny" again, I expect to pay my belated 
contribution to the memorial entry. 

Isaac W. Roberts 

Bala, Pa. 

Lawfyer, with firm of Duane, Morris, Heckscher & Roberts, No. 1617 Land 
Title Bldg., Philadelphia. 

S. Crozer Robinson 

Upland, Delawfare County, Pennsylvania. 

Insurance Broker, office of Stokes & Packard, 142 S. 4th St., Philadelphia. 

Married Meta Craig Biddle, on May 27, 1905, at Andalusia, Pa. 

Born, Elsie Biddle Robinson, on April 4, 1906, at Upland, Pa. 

Markham Club, Philadelphia. 
Dear Howard: 

Nothing much to tell. Went to Berlin for one year at the University after leaving 
Princeton. Toured Europe ; saw a few men from my Class, Stobo and Rabbit Wells. Came 

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home and went into business with Chas. H. Harrison Co. (Inc.), of Philadelphia, as 
Secretary and Treasurer. This concern failed, gnd I am now an insurance broker and doing 
fairly well, but hope to do better. 

Sorry I can give you no more news of the Class. 

Yours sincerely, 

S. C. R. 

Arthur P. Robinson 

Last known addresses, Altoona, Pa. ; Wylan, Ala. 

Clayton K. Robords 

Last known address, Arksport, N. Y. 

Auguste Roche, Jr. 

56 East Park St., East Orange, N. J. 

Lawyer Associated with the firm of Munn & Church, 800 Broad St., New- 
ark, N. J. 

Daniel M. Rogers 

American Missionary, Hadjin, Turkey in Asia. 
Hadjin, Turkey. 

Ordained minister and missionary of the American Board of Commissioners 
for Foreign Missions. 

Married Mary Phelps Christie on May 29, 1908, at Palmer, Mass. 

Of the recruits four are going to the Central Turkey Mission; they include Rev. and 
Mrs. D. Miner Rogers, Miss S. Louise Peck, and Miss K. E. Ainslee. Mr. Rogers is a 
native of New Haven, Conn., where he became a member of the South Congregational 
Church when but ten years of age. Graduating from Princeton University in 1903 and 
from Hartford Theological Seminary in 1906, he became a Student Volunteer while in 
college. Since his ordination, in September, 1906, he has served as pastor of the Congre- 
gational Church of East Dorset, Vt. Mr. Rogers was married to Miss Mary P. Christie, 
daughter of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. T. D. Christie, of the Central Turkey Mission. Mrs. Rogers 
was born in Marash, and after studying in the Adana Girls' Seminary and the American 
College for Girls in Constantinople she came to this country, taking extended courses of 
study at Bryn Mawr and Hartford Theological Seminary. Her long-cherished desire to 
serve as a missionary is now to be carried out, and it is a special joy to her that she can 
go with her husband to her native land to labor for the women of Turkey. It is expected 
that Mr. and Mrs. Rogers will be located at Hadjin. 

Hajrward D. Rose 

Last known address, 34 W. 57th St., New York City. 



Leland H. Ross 

52 Alpine Ave., Newark, N. J. 

Civil Engineer with P. Sanford Ross Inc. 

277 Washington St., Jersey City, N. J. 

Married Parthenia Burke. 

Born, Leland H. Ross, Jr., February 19, 1908, at Newark, N. J. 

WUliam B. Roys 

Madison, Wis. 

1019 W. Johnson St., Madison, Wis. 

Teller in State Street Branch of the Bank of Wisconsin. 

Married Alma Jane Taylor, on October 29, 1907, at Madison. 

Thomas A. Rutherford 

1 1 68 Schoolhouse Lane, Germantown, Pa. 

Carbondale, Pa. 

Assistant Physician at Hillside Home, Clarks Summit, Pa. 

December ii, 1908. 
My dear Ameli: 

Since leaving Princeton I have graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsyl- 
vania and for the year 1907-08 I spent as Lecturer and Research Assistant in the Chemical 
Department of the University of Illinois, and was assistant physician for their famous 
"poison squad," which consisted of twenty-four men, who were kept under control for ten 
jnonths. At present I am assistant physician at this institution, 

Yours, 

Thos. A. Rutherford. 

Horace A. Saks 

20 W. 58th St., New York City. 

Member of the firm of Saks & Co., Dry Goods, Broadway and 33rd St., New 
York City. 

Norman C. Schenck 

Hot Springs, North Carolina. 

Minister. 

Married Dorothy Jean Robinson, on December 21, 1908, at Oxford, Ohio. 

Albert B. Schultz 

817 N. Highland Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Lawyer, with offices No. 1108 Frick Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

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Harry C. Schweikert 

Central High School, St. Louis, Mo. 
5086 Westminster Place, St. Louis, Mo. 
Instructor in English in Central High School. 

5086 Westminster Place, St. Louis, Mo., October 11, igo8. 
My dear Ameli: 

I inclose you my reply to your circular note of recent date. I was very sorry not to 
to have been able to be with you in the spring, but my work runs over just one week, 
making it impossible for me to get back. I am glad to know that there is going to be a 
second 1903 Record. It will no doubt prove interesting reading to all loyal members of 
the Class. 

I am sorry that I have nothing of interest to communicate about myself, for I have 
achieved neither fame nor fortune, nothing but the satisfaction of doing some useful service 
to the community and to Princeton, for I have been directly instrumental in having several 
corking good fellows sent to college from this burg. Woodrow Wilson gave me an 
appointment as Instructor in English at Princeton three years ago, but there was such 
an enormous salary attached to it that I felt I could not assume the responsibility of handling 
so much money. Hence I turned it down. For similar reasons I refused to consider an 
offer from Perdue two years ago, and so I keep plugging away at the same old job year 
after year. 

You will notice my negative after the Memorial Fund. Some time I wish you would 
give me a little more light on that subject. I am afraid that I have not received all my 
Class communications, for I noticed you still had my address of four years ago. I will not 
be able to contribute much, but still I'd like to throw in my mite for loyalty and goodfel- 
lowship sake. 

I wish you the best and speediest success in your "Record" enterprise. 

Your friend and classmate, 

H. C. Schweikert. 

Garfield Scott 

168 Schoolhouse Lane, Germantown, Pa. 

Lawyer, associated with law firm of Duane, Morris, Hecksher & Roberts, No. 
1 61 7 Land Title Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Philadelphia, February 3, 1909. 
Dear Howard: 

As you seem to have spent most of the Class money in sending me postals asking for a 
letter for the Class Record, the least I can do is "to do my little part." 

My life since leaving college has been very uneventful, both from a social and political 
standpoint. I have no children and am not married. I have held no office under the 
National, State or any foreign government. My activity in the field of politics has been 
confined to calling on some of the ignorant voters of our division and trying to convince 
them that by voting for the reform candidate more grist will be brought to their mill. You 
can imagine how persuasive and effective this argument was. The methods of Pennsylvania 
politicians make those employed by "Bill" Singer in college look like LeGrande Griswold 
or Gus Ober leading the grand march at a fireman's ball. 

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After leaving college I attended the Law School of "Dear Old Penn" for three long 
years, and at the commencement exercises, wrapped in a hood of red and blue, with my 
hands tightly holding on to my watch and money, I could reverently sing the commencement 
hymn, the first line of which is "Now thank we all our God." 

Since graduating from the Law School I have been practicing law in this city and have 
made a specialty of Negro divorce suits. If any of the Southern members of our Class have 
the need of my services in that line I will be very glad to either defend or prosecute such 
suits for them free of charge. 

"Ike" Roberts and I have offices together, and between us we manage to keep pretty 
well informed on Class matters and those relating to Princeton. 

I admit that this letter is not as funny as "Skinner" Wright would make it, or as full 
of scandal as "Al" Schultz would make it, but it is the best I can do. 

Yours, etc., 

Garfield Scott. 

George T. Scott 

221 Adams St., Chicago. 

Studying for the Christian ministry at the McCormick Seminary, Chicago. 

Homer Scott 

loio Louisiana Ave., Little -Rock, Ark. 

Bookkeeper with England National Bank, Little Rock, Ark. 

William H. Scranton 

830 Monroe Ave., Scranton, Pa. 

Instructor in Wood-working and Drawing in W. T. Smith Manual Training 
School, Adams Ave. and Gibson St., Scranton, Pa. 

Edward W. Scudder 

General Manager Newark Evening News, Newark, N. J. 

"jy Clinton Ave., Newark, N. J. 

Married Katherine C. Hollifield, on June 4, 1907, at Newark, N. J. 

Otto F. Seggel 

285 Central Ave., Jersey City, N. J. 

Lawyer with offices at No. 25 Broad St., New York City. 

Walter Foote Sellers 

Fort Bayard, New Mexico. 
Lawyer. 

Fort Bayard, N. M., October 20, 1908. 
Dear Howard: 

After strenuous effort, my autobiography is condensed into one volume, so here you are : 

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After graduation I went to New York, and between football games and reunions studied 
law at the New York Law School. We had a distinguished company of Woodrow's First 
Born there, about twenty altogether, and two of them, Bill Barr and Corwin Howell, led the 
class of two hundred and fifty. They turned us loose in 1905 and we were admitted to the 
New York Bar after Al Smith's father vouched for our moral characters. Of course, he 
knew that any friends of Al's — etc. ! Thereafter I practiced in the offices of C. E. Le Barbier 
and Alexander & Green till June, 1907, when my health went back on me and I shook the 
dust of the big burg from my feet and went to the Adirondacks. Last winter a sudden 
"reversal of form" sent me down here, where I am industriously eating ozone and wondering 
when I'll- see a Yale game and do a day's work again. Anyway, I'm coming back to our 
Decennial. 

As for your questions about my family — after seeing your statistic blank with spaces 
for the names of three wives and seven children, I feel derelict in my duty when I have to 
report that in five years I have acquired neither luxuries nor household pets. But you know 
how it is, Howard — so many girls nowadays marry the wrong man. 

I guess that will do for me. With heartfelt sympathy for you in your work of getting 
out the Record, I am. 

Yours to a cinder, 

Walter F. Sellers. 

George C. Shafer 

Last known address, Montrose, Pa. 

Jacob J. Sheasley 

1221 Buffalo St., Franklin, Pa. 

Teller and Individual Bookkeeper at Lamberton National Bank. 

Married Grace M. Jones on May 29, 1908, in Allegheny, Pa. 

William W. Shelley 

3601 Baltimore Ave., Kansas City, Mo. 

Lawyer, with offices 408 N. Y. Life Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. 

Robert W. Singer 

407 Nixon Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
713 Maryland Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

With the Index Publishing Company, Publishers, 407 Nixon Bldg., Pitts- 
burgh, Pa. 

William A. Sipe, Jr. 

Last known address, 343 Fairmount Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Jay F. Slee 

218 W. ist St., Elmira, N. Y. 

Last known address. Otto, Allegheny County, Pa. 

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Charles C. Smith 

2IO East Maple Ave., Merchantville, N. J. 
With the Camden Coke Co., Camden, N. J. 

Frank Smith 

Last known address, Fricks, Pa. 

Albridge C. Smith, Jr. 

141 Broadway, New York City. 

203 Lincoln Ave., Orange, N. J. 

Lawyer, with offices No. 141 Broadway, New York City. 

Alexander Speer 

932 Equitable Bldg., Denver, Col. 

Dillon, Col. 

Superintendent of the Summit County Power Company. 

John E. Steen 

218 S. 44th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
700 Park Ave., New York City. 
Student Union Theological Seminary. 

700 Park Avenue, New York, February 2, 1909. 
Dear Howard: 

I am here in New York at the Union Theological Seminary, hoping to finish this 
coming May my three years' course of study. As some of you remember, I was in Princeton 
for two years after 1903 passed into the "cold, cold world," acting as General Secretary of 
the Philadelphian Society and doing enough study to be handed out an M.A. In September, 

1905, I sailed for Japan, and spent almost a year there in Yokohama and Kobe, as a teacher 
of English in both the Y. M. C. A. schools and the Government schools. As this was the 
period immediately after the Peace of Portsmouth, it was full of unusual happenings. I had 
a hard time tearing myself away to come home, but managed to make the break in August, 

1906, and came back via India, thus finishing out the circle around the world. I tried to 
leave a kind of memorial in Japan by helping to organize the Princeton Alumni Association 
of Japan, which has since been an important figure in international politics ( !) and has had at 
least one dinner. 

On my return I came directly to the Seminary, though I wasn't sure of doing this till 
I actually landed, and here I am now. On the side I was last year one of the assistants at the 
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, where I had a good Eli for boss, and this winter 
I've been trying a small church out in New Jersey. Plans for the future are non-existent, 
except that I expect now to stay in this country. Incidentally, I'm succeding George Scott 
on the Peking Committee, so don't be surprised to hear from me. If you hear I'm engaged, 
married, or insane, you may deny them all in the same breath and expend as much pity on 
me as you think I need for not being any of these. 

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This is the bare skeleton of my life ; further detailed information will be gladly sent to 
anyone interested enough to write. Stamps need not be enclosed. 

Ever yours, 

John E. Steen. 

Charles M. Stephenson 

Last known address, 650 Morewood Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Clarence E. Sterrett 

Box 205, Titusville, Pa. 
Lawyer. 

"Judge" Sterrett is now traveling through the West, with the expectation of 
practicing law at Guthrie, Okla. 

Harris B. Stewart 

President's House, Theological Seminary, Auburn, N. Y. 

Minister. 

1908-9, Teaching, Syrian College, Beirut. 

Syrian Protestant College, Beirut, Syria, November 30, 1908. 
Dear Howard: 

Your circular letter asking for information about myself has just reached me. There 
is not much to tell, for nothing has happened to me. I have not been married nor am I 
even engaged. No honors or positions of responsibility have been thrust upon me, nor 
have I earned any. After leaving college I attended Auburn Theological Seminary for 
three years, along with Reed, Schenck and "Parson" Young. For one year I was the 
assistant minister of the Second Presbyterian Church of Auburn, N. Y. This past year has 
been spent in study in Scotch and German universities, and I have landed at last in Beirut, 
Syria. Here is the Syrian Protestant College, with nearly a thousand students from all 
parts of the Orient, and "Bunnie" Reed and I, along with several other Princeton men, and 
men from other American universities, are doing what we can to satisfy their craving for 
the English language. It was here that George Scott spent three years after graduation and 
made for himself a large and lasting place in the affections of this community. 

It is certainly an interesting time to be in this part of the world, where one can see and 
hear at first hand the remarkable changes that are going on in the Ottoman Empire. What 
the year will bring forth no one can foresee, but it will be a year of transformation and, we 
hope, of progress. 

With best wishes for the success of the "Record" and greetings to the Class, I am, 

Yours faithfully, 

Harris B. Stewart. 

Alexander Stobo 

Room 900, 115 Adams St., Chicago. 

Lubricating Oil Department, Standard Oil Company. 

Dear Howard: 

I owe you about two letters, but will spare you and confine myself to one. I expect 

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you noted how promptly I returned that information for the Class Record and how leisurely 
I have been in writing the letter that you requested. In fact, Howard, there isn't anything 
to write about. You know about as much about me as I know myself. 

Yours, 

Alex. 
P. S. — Note I said nothing about football. Give my best to all the boys. 

Note. — I fear that Alec has been advised by the Interests not to write too much for 
publication — in spite of the fact that I assured him that any facts divulged in his letter would 
not be used against him. I absolutely refuse to tell what I know about Alexander, and I am 
of the opinion that I will be harshly criticised for writing this, with many apologies. 

Harry A. Strater 

Florida Heights, Kentucky. 

Secretary of Strater Bros. Tobacco Company, 510 Caldwell St., Louisville, 
Kentucky. 

Paul Stratton 

43 Victor St., Yonkers, N. Y. 

Minister of the Dayspring Presbyterian Church, Yonkers, N. Y. 

Married Miss Ethel Irene Russell, on January 9, 1909. 

Yonkers, N. Y., October 24, 1908. 
My dear Howard: 

I have nothing very personal to report for the Class Record. After I graduated from 
Princeton Seminary in 1906 I took up the work of the pastorate of the First Presbyterian 
Church at Matteawan, N. Y., where I became famous (?) along with the other ministers 
of the village, by preaching once each month to Harry K. Thaw. I left Matteawan and took 
up the work here at the Dayspring Presbyterian Church on September 20th of this year, 
and am still plugging away in a most interesting field and among a most interesting people. 
Thus far I have no wife and children to record, but if Providence is kind to me I shall 
be the happy possessor of the former before many moons roll by, but only the good old 
"Stork" himself can tell what is in store for me along the latter line. 

My best wishes to you personally and through you to all the men of 1903. 

Cordially and fraternally, 

Paul Steatton. 

Lawrence SuUenberger 

Pagosa Springs, Col. 

Assistant Manager of the Pagosa Lumber Company, Pagosa, Col. 

Pagosa Springs, Colo., December 10, 1908. 
Howard W. Ameli, Secretary, 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Dear Howard: 

Your postal of November 30, 1908, requesting statistic blank for Class Record received. 

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Since graduating have been with The Pagosa Lbr. Co., now located at Pagosa Springs, 
now holding position of Assistant Manager. 

Do not know exactly what you desire. However, if there is anything further, kindly 
let me know. 

With best wishes to the Class, 

Very truly yours, 

Lawrence Sullenberger. 

Walter R. Tafel 

Last known address, 3306 Arch St., Philadelphia. 

William L, Talley 

Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Nashville, Tenn. 
Lawyer, with office at above address. 

Nashville, Tenn., November 25, 1908. 
Mr. Howard W. Ameli, Secretary, 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 
My dear Howard: 

Replying to your postal of recent date, in which you ask for a letter from me for the 
Class Record, nothing has happened to me since my graduation worthy of mention. I have 
done nothing of even passing moment and said nothing that would lift my sayings above 
my doings. My thrills and experiences have merely culminated in the daring feat of 
removing from Murfreesboro, the home of my forebears, to the metropolis of Nashville, 
thirty miles away, where since my removal I have courted, with indifferent success, the 
practice of law and the coy and discriminating client. I can only add that from a remunera- 
tive point of view, my profession has yielded me just enough of "hog and hominy" to 
keep alive in my breast fond hopes for the future. 

I have not married, nor am I engaged. And as the bald spot on my head widens its 
sphere of influence, I see the possibilities of either grow so remote as to presage the 
certainty of my remaining in a state of single cussedness. 

My love for Princeton and my interest in every member of the Class of 1903 increase 
more and more as the years go by, and my one best wish for every member of the Class 
is that each one may strike against nothing but success during his life career . 

Most sincerely yours, 

Wm. L. Talley. 

Malcolm S. Taylor 

R. F. D. No. 5, Morgantown, North Carolina. 

Minister — Protestant Episcopal Missionary to the Southern Mountaineers. 

Married Agnes Louise Fish, on September 22, 1908, in New York City. 

J. Stevens Templeton 

Last known address, Princeton, 111. 

With Hunter W. Fitch & Co., Fisher Bldg., Chicago, 111. 

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George H. Thacher 

III Washington Ave., Albany, N. Y. 

With George H. Thacher & Co., Albany, N. Y., manufacturers of car wheels. 

Rudolph E. Tiedemann 

73 Mercer St., New York City. 
Greenwich, Conn. 

Member of firm of Theo. Tiedemann & Sons, dry goods, 73 Mercer St., New 
York City. 

Married Gertrude E. Fraenchel, May 22, 1907, at New York City. 

Percival Tillinghast 

Palmerton, Pa. 

Dept. Supt. New Jersey Zinc Co., Palmerton, Pa. 

William B. Todd 

Last known address, 120 N. 8th St., Lebanon, Pa. 
Care of Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company. 

Walter K. Tompkins 

326 Williamson Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio. 

10720 Cedar Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. 

Lawyer, with offices at 326 Williamson Bldg., Cleveland, O. 

Married Effie Grace Wilson, on February 11, 1908, at Cleveland, Ohio. 

Born, Louise Wilson Tompkins, December 9, 1908, at Cleveland, Ohio. 

Central 3644 W. W. K. TOMPKINS 

Attorney at Law 
1035 Williamson Building 

Cleveland, O. 12-21-08 

Mr. H. W. Ameli, Bklyn N. Y. 
Dear Sir: — As per your postal. 

1903-4 Law student at Western Reserve Law School. 

1904-6 " " " Cleveland Law School. Graduated "Magna cum laude". June 

igo6 Admitted to Ohio Bar. 

1906-7 Employed in legal department The Continental Jewelry Co. 

1908 Practicing law. 

Feb. II 1908 Married to Miss Effie Grace Wilson. 

Dec. gth. 1908, Father of Daughter, Louise Wilson Tompkins. 

Respectfully submitted, 

W. K. Tompkins. 

Charles Townsend, Jr. 

Last known address, Elizabeth, N. J. 
Minister. 

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George B. Trumbull 

Last address, Chicago, 111. 

Edward J. Tumbull 

Bayshore, Long Island. 
32 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Assistant Secretary The Central Stamping Company, 172-174 Fulton St., 
New York City. 

Married Edith E. Squier, on September 30, 1905, at Greenwich, Conn. 

Henry C. Turner 

646 St. Marks Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Lawyer, with offices at 141 Broadway, New York City. 

William P. Van Tries 

Berwyn, Pa. 

Minister, Trinity Presbyterian Church, at Berwyn, Pa. 

Erwin Vogelsang 

42 Broadway, New York City. 

Care of L. Vogelstein & Co., metals. 

Married Emmelin W. Baxter, on April 3, 1909, at New York City. 

J. V. Vredenburgh 

Last known address. Freehold, N. J. 

John M. Wabeke 

Last known address, 616 Moss Ave., Peoria, 111. 

Irving R. Wade 

Eustis, Florida. 

President and Treasurer of The Lake Yale Lumber Company, Inc., Grand 
Island, Fla. 

Married Laura Adelaide Reames, on April 30, 1902, at New Brunswick, N. J. 
Born, Thomas Kendall Wade, on March 2, 1903, at East Orange, N. J. 

Grand Island, Florida, October 14, 1908. 
Mr. Howard W. Ameli, 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Dear Sir: 

It is with pleasure that I respond to your request for a word of my wanderings. It 

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will of necessity be short, as my wanderings liave not been of any great account since 
leaving college, even if I am now located way down here in Florida. I started in to 
paint the town of Cleveland, Ohio, red at Sherwin-Williams Paint Co., which was going 
some, but for the past three years I have been only "lumbering along." 

My greatest regret since coming south has been my inability to be present at our 
class reunions and the annual games. My heart is with you all at all times and I read the 
papers eagerly for news. 

Under separate cover I am sending you a picture of my boy, who even now, at the 
tender age of 5, "Hoops it up for Princeton." 

Your ever loyal classmate, 

I. R. Wade. 

W. A. Wagner 

Last known address, Crosby, Mich. 

Otis L. Walker 

821 E. & C. Bldg., Denver, Col. 

1753 Grant St., Denver, Col. 

Sales Agent for the Potlatch Lumber Company. 

Otis writes: "I was very sorry not to be able to be at the last Reunion of the 
Class. I am not married, and not getting rich, but manage to enjoy life a good 
deal." Also sends his best wishes to the class. 

James H. Walker 

16 William St., New York City. 
61 Valley Road, Montclair, N. J. 

Clerk in Transfer Dept. Farmers Loan and Trust Co., 16 William St., New 
York City. 

October id, igo8. 
Dear Howard: 

I received your letter enclosing "pedigree papers" some time ago and have filled them 
out as well as I could and returned them to you. I regret that it was necessary to leave 
some of the questions unanswered, but in view of the fact that I am still enjoying "single 
blessedness," you can readily see that it would have been a decided breach of convention 
and in fact a menace to public morals to give you my wife's maiden name or send you 
pictures of the children. However, here's hoping. 

After leaving college I took a last long loaf, and in the fall of 1903 accepted a position 
(that sounds pretty prosperous, doesn't it?) in the refuge provided for any unoccupied 
Princeton stude. The American Locomotive Co. After mastering the business in the short 
space of two years, I went with the Franklin Trust Co. as loan clerk, which job I also held 
down for two years, with such pecuniary success as to be able at the end of that time to 
pay out of my profits my first year's subscription to the Class Memorial Fund. Flushed 
with that success, I went to the Farmers Loan and Trust Co., where I can be seen any day 
between the hours of nine and four, Sundays excepted. I might say in passing that since 
I went with them their deposits have increased from about one hundred millions to one 
hundred and fourteen millions, and I leave it to you and the rest of the Class to fix the 
responsibility. 

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I can't tell you any scandal about any of the men for two reasons. The first is that I 
haven't seen "Gar" Scott for over two years, and the second is that I am receiving an annuity 
from one man that I have incriminating evidence against. If you don't believe it, ask Al 
Smith. Having seen in the papers that the cost of white paper is increasing, I won't take up 
any more space in the Record, but will close with the wish that long life and success will 
be the portion of every man of 1903. 

Very sincerely, 

James H. Walker. 

John H. Wallace 

Washington, Pa. 

Silk Apartments, Crofton, Pa. 

General Manager of the Crofton Builders Supply Company, Crofton, Pa. 

Married Maud Elizabeth Daschback, on February 17, 1908, at Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Louis W. Wallner 

34 Pine St., New York City, care of E. D. Levinson. 
Long Hill, Chatham, N. J. 

Partner of E. D. Levinson in bond brokerage business, 34 Pine St., New York 
City. 

Married Doris Cole, on June 2, 1908, at East Orange, N. J. 

Frank C. Wallower 

204 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Webb City, Mo. 

Mine operator ; General Manager The Bradford Kansas City Zinc Co. ; The 
Disbrow Mining Company. 

Married Marie Russert, on February 27, 1907, at Christ Church P. E. Cathe- 
dral, St. Louis, Mo. 

Born, Frank C. Wallower, Jr., on November 21, 1907, at Webb City, Mo. 

Gardiner Watkins 

104 Hanover St., Boston, Mass. 
17 Highgate St., Allston, Mass. 

President and Treasurer The Grant Watkins Company, perfume and toilet 
preparations, at 104 Hanover St., Boston, Mass. 

Married Elisabeth Ruth Mathews, on April 18, 1906, at Summit, N. J. 

Born, Gardiner Watkins, Jr., on February 28, 1907. 

Tinda Mathews Watkins, on May 23, 1908, at Boston, Mass. 

Harry C. Weaver 

Last known address, Bellefonte, Pa. 

Norman S. Welch 

205 E. Bay St., Charleston, S. C. 
4 Lamball St., Charleston, S. C. 

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With Montague & Tucker, lumber merchants. 

Married Katherine Stovey, on April 27, 1908, at Charleston, S. C. 

John P. Welling 

Last known address, 4950 Greenwood Ave., Chicago. 
The Seattle Lumber Company, Seattle, Washington. 

Erastus Wells 

4456 Maryland Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 

With Revere Realty Company, Suite 702 Bank of Commerce Building, St. 
Louis, Mo. 

Married Julia Knapp, May 19, 1906, at St. Louis. 
Born, Julia Wells, September 19, 1907, at St. Louis. 

Glenn Carlton Wharton 

814-16 New York Life Bldg., Omaha, Neb. 

3501 Harvey St., Omaha, Neb. 

Treasurer of Grove — Wharton Construction Co., Omaha, Neb. 

Married Ada Elizabeth Kirkendall, on February 14, 1908, at Omaha, Neb. 

C. Osborn Wheeler 

32 James St., Newark, N. J. 

Member of firm of Shipman & Wheeler, Real Estate Brokers, Shipman St. 
and Springfield Ave., Newark, N. J. 

Alvin Wiehle 

Last known address, Wiehle, West Va. 

George Wilcox 

McAlester, Okla. 

Civil and Mining Engineer at McAlester, Okla. 

Married Alice Blythe Tucker, on July 30, 1907, at Owen Sound, Ontario. 

Born, Elizabeth Blytjie Wilcox, on August 8, 1908, at Owen Sound, Ontario. 

Robert D. Williams 

Last known address, Racine, Wis. 

Harry R. Wilson 

928 W. State St., Trenton, N. J. 

Lawyer, with offices in The Broad St. Bank Bldg., Trenton, N. J. 



William L. Wilson 

158 Lake St., Chicago, III. 

231 Elm Place, Highland Park, 111. 

Salesman with The Aluminum Company of America, 158 Lake St., Chicago. 

Married Lura Reineman, on March 16, 1905. 

Born, William Addison Wilson, on October 5, 1908, at Highland Park, 111. 

William A. Wilson 

230 South Fairmount Park, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Lawyer, member of the firm of Houston, Frew & Wilson, No. 459 Frick 
Bldg. Annex, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

George Cloyd Wilson, Jr. 

302 Rebecca St., East End, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

In Operating Department of the Pittsburgh Railway Company, Sandusky and 
N. Diamond Sts., North Side, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

linger Wilson 

302 Rebecca St., East End, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

With Supt. of Transportation Dept. of the Pittsburgh Railway Company, 
6th Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Abram Davst Wilt, Jr. 

525 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich. 

Member of firm of Schweppe & Wilt, Detroit, Mich., manufacturers of Auto 
parts, gears, etc. 

Theodore Withee 

Last known address, La Crosse, Wis. 

Charles M. Wood 

Last known address, 346 Market St., Chambersburg, Pa. 

Edward Biglow Woods 

Care of Nursery and Childs' Hospital, Lexington Ave. and 51st St., New 
York City. 

House Surgeon in above hospital. 

Charles L. Wrenn 

Cranford, N. J. 

206 East 17th St., New York City. 



Illustrator, Art Department of Street & Smith, Publishers, 7th Ave. and 15th 
St., New York City. 

Married Helen Gibbs Bourne, on October 5, 1907, at Cranford, N. J. 

Franklin L. Wright 

"The Hamilton," Norristown, Pa. 

Lawyer, with offices at No. 900 Penn Square Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. 

900 Penn Square Building, Philadelphia, December 23, 1908. 
Howard W. Ameli, Esq., 

1422 Pacific Street, 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Dear Howard: 

Having filled out your blank of statistical information, and having shown conclusively 
that, like the unfaithful servant of Biblical fame, I have brought nothing in my hands, or 
rather arms, which can in the future do deeds which will redound to the credit of Old 
Nassau, nevertheless I hope to be received at the next big reunion by the good servants 
with open arms. 

Since the last Princeton days of 1903, I have spent three years in pursuit of the law 
amid the company of Knocker Scott and Scrag Bird Roberts. We managed to fill out 
pleasantly three otherwise pretty poor years after the four at Princeton. Occasional over- 
Sunday trips to Princeton acted as an elixir, and we pulled through all right. I am now 
following the trail of the law, and although the returns are not astounding, make enough 
to get back to Princeton now and again. 

The ranks of the Class are thin in Philadelphia, and it is like pulling teeth to get 
Dave Baird out of his lumber yard in Camden and across the river, but such travellers 
as Pitcairn, the railroader, and John G. Armstrong, enamel prince, are in town occasionally 
to swell the crowd. Both of them are reaching proportions which help materially to this 
end. Some of the New Yorkers come over now and then, but you only catch fleeting 
glimpses of them. The only place for the right kind of a meeting is the middle of Nassau 
Street or thereabouts. I would like to see the Class have a mid-year dinner at Princeton, 
instead of in New York, and thereby get as many men as possible back to Princeton. This 
to my mind makes the best kind of a reunion and has been in the past the most successful. 

Here's to the next time the 1903s gather, and may it be a still more salubrious occasion 
than any yet pulled off. 

Yours very truly, 

Franklin L. Wright. 

Harry H. Wright 

Last known address, Imlaystown, N. J. 

Henry George Weston Young 

President and Manager of the Middleby Oven Co., 286 State St., Boston, 
Mass. 

Robert S. Young 

27 Howard Ave., Binghampton, N. Y. 

Minister, Broad Ave. Presbyterian Church, Binghampton, N. Y. 



IN MEMORIAM 

John Linn Patton 
Oct. 6, 1900 

John By ram Austin 
Dec. 21, 1900 

James Thurlow Weed 
Dec. 10, 1901 

Edwin M. Loucks 
Jan. 22, 1904 

James Buren Higgins 
May, 1905 

Wilbur A. Pancoast 
July II, 1906 

James M. Parry 
March 6, 1908 

George B. Rea 
April 8, 1908 

Alan P. Jones 
May 13, 1908 

Donald De Witt 
Sept. 9, 1908 

Thomas Lewis Thomas 
Nov. 6, 1908 

Garrett P. Serviss, Jr. 
Dec. 23, 1908 



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1903 IN INDIA 

Christian College, Allahabad, November 22, 1908. 
Dear Howard: 

I am afraid I made a mistake last week when I refused to accept an Ameri- 
can letter and pay ten cents on it (I get so many ads. that I have to) ; for I fear 
it was the blanks you sent and I would like to fill them up so as to have our 
class records complete. Put me down for a copy, anyhow. 

It certainly is good of you to ask me to write an article, and I thank you for 
the honor, but in the midst of my present busy life I cannot get the quiet and 
thought that are necessary if I am to do my duty, but as you say the articles are 
to represent the different professions and as I am, so far as I know, the only unor- 
dained foreign missionary of our class, it is up to me to do what I can. The 
egotism which I display is natural, and therefore I shall not apologize for it, 
for after all what I want to know about my classmates — what they are doing — 
and a decorous and becoming modesty on the part of each fellow will lead to a 
deathly dead book. Therefore, my article or letter or rather the stuff I send you, 
whatever name you give to it, is largely a record of my own life since I left 
Princeton, and you are at liberty to treat it as you like. Edit, amend, omit as 
best fits in with your idea of the class report. 

To begin with, then, I was appointed to the Christian College, Allahabad, at 
a mission meeting held in Ludhiband, Punjab, in November, 1903. Till July I 
was to study the language, or rather languages — Hindu and Urdu — which are most 
fcommon in this part of India. At a students' camp, held during Christmas week 
I got a sunstroke that for several months threatened to end my usefulness to the 
Board of Foreign Missions. Early in May, after months of idleness, I went to 
one of the stations in the foothills of the Himalayas, and here I rapidly got back 
to normal, and by July 15th, I was back in Allahabad, teaching Bible English and 
Economics for four hours a day, reading the Bible morning and evening with 
Mohammedan students whose objects in reading were to get a lesson in English, 
and find out things in the Bible which could be criticised. Each afternoon I spent 
an hour learning the game of association football, with Indian students. This 
first year I was also given charge of two institutions — a Blind Asylum, with about 
fifty inmates, which I managed for about three years, and a Leper Asylum, which 
was in a wretched condition, and no self-respecting leper would stay in it if he 
could possibly get out. There were in those days about fifty inmates. During the 
last four years the Asylum has been entirely rebuilt, and now consists of quarters 
for one hundred and fifty lepers, with hospital, church, servants' quarters and 

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store rooms. I have started a little farm in it on American principles, and have 
about a dozen head of stock, and to feed them I have put in a silo. The children 
of the lepers are not always infected, and it has been a long job to get land and 
a suitable home built, but I am now glad to say that the home is open and half a 
dozen children removed from the danger of contagion. I am now in the midst 
of plans for an irrigation engine and pump for the Asylum, and the only reason 
it is not beyond the plan stage is that so far none of the manufacturers of 
these things are willing to give me the plant free, and in return I offer to send them 
accurate returns of the amount of water pumped. 

In October, 1904, I took to myself a wife. Shortly after my marriage, 
in October, 1904, I was given charge of a Christian Boys' Hostel. In this there 
are about fifty boys and they are real boys, so I do not suffer from ennui. 

In July, 1906, the subject of biology was put on the college course, and not 
because I was fit to teach it but because no other man on the staff had ever 
studied it at all, I had to take it up. Some day when farther removed from the 
detail of this I will relate my experiences in this branch of knowledge. I am 
glad to say that there is now a man to help in this who will have full charge of 
this work while I am on furlough. 

I have said enough to show that the opportunities for work in the life of a 
missionary are unrivalled. If the Indian missionary does not go to bed tired 
every night it is his own fault. Since I landed in India there has not been an hour 
when I wanted to be rid of my job. The infinite variety and charm of it, the 
thought that one is lifting where the lift is needed ; the stimulus of keen Hindu and 
Mohammedan students ; the present unrest in India, when no one knows what a 
day may bring forth ; the chance to help men to think clearly and see straight, and 
above all, the changes one sees from day to day in the lives of students, all go to 
make one feel what a real joy it is to live, and how often, as I have heard of the 
trouble men are having at home to find work, how often have I longed to tell them 
of the opportunity this needy land offers to a man to make his life count. 

Allahabad is not a health resort, and the usual Indian diseases, plague, chol- 
era, small-pox, malaria, are as busy here as elsewhere, but the life has its compen- 
sations. Next April my wife and two youngsters, with myself, hope to start for 
a two-year furlough. It is my intention to study agriculture, and I regret ex- 
ceedingly that Princeton has not such a department, as I should dearly love to 
spend my days of rest there. As it looks now, I shall be in Cornell, with my head- 
quarters in Cleveland. This college has opened an engineering department, and 
we hope it will grow ; at present we are short of men and of funds. 

Here it is — the Yale game is ancient history to you, while I have not even 
felt the tingle in my blood which comes from the knowledge of how the warming 
up games came out. 

As ever your friend and classmate, 

Sam Higginbottom. 
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1903 IN POLITICS 

Looked at from a broad, statesmanlike view point, the most incomparably 
important political event that occurred to "1903" was the retirement of Bill Singer 
and Al Schultz into private life at the time of our graduation. It cannot but be 
regretted that both these great political lights have gone to live in Pennsylvania. 
That State is already peculiarly blessed with men of their ability, and it is ear- 
nestly hoped that the Commonwealth will bring in "true bills" against them as it 
has against so many of its statesmen recently, and that they can be persuaded that 
life is more healthy elsewhere, and thus each may be compelled to migrate to a 
field where he can shine unhampered by the brilliancy of the other. 

No record of "1903" would be complete without mentioning that grand young 
man of Missouri — Thomas S. McPheeters, Jr. Democracy is his religion. Let 
any principle be touched by its divine fire, and Tommy will embrace it with a 
whole-souled and guileless love. During the last campaign he was the Democratic 
nominee for the noble and remunerative office of Delegate to the Missouri legisla- 
ture. In vain, however, were the brass bands, the banners and the fiery exhorta- 
tions to the State to remain true to the faith of its forefathers. In vain were the 
proceeds from the great firm of McPheeters & Burkham poured into the famous 
open-worked campaign fund of the Democratic party. The great wave of Repub- 
lican victory swept over Missouri and drowned all aspirants for honors on the 
opposing ticket. Tom climbed down from the water wagon, and retired again to 
the law. Speaking of the water wagon makes one turn from Misouri to Hoboken. 
Jimmy Dear and Dougal Herr were candidates for the Republican nomination 
for Assemblymen in Hudson county, N. J. .embracing the City of Hoboken. Jim- 
my got the nomination and proceeded to run on a no-booze-on-Sunday platform. 
Imagine anyone having the cheek to do that in Hoboken. Of course it is needless 
to say what happened. 

Over in Orange, N. J., "Bill" Barr was backed by Al. Smith for the Repub- 
lican nomination for Constable in the 4th Ward of Orange. "Al" always wanted 
to be a great political leader like Schultz or Singer, but up to last year, when the 
new Primary Law went into effect in New Jersey, and anyone could become a 
leader, he never succeeded in finding anyone who would be willing to be led by 
him; but "Bill' was good-natured and anyhow he had a date that Primary day 
with what the Prince of Diplomacy — E. Montmorency Palmer, 1903 — would 
call a "goil" and could not be at the polls, so he let "Al" run him. The Primary 
Election was warmly contested, but unfortunately Bill's opponent, a Dago, had 
seven votes against Al's candidate's one; in consequence, he lost the sublime 
honor of the Republican nomination for constable in that Ward in Orange. 



Al. himself butted right into politics as soon as he left college. In 1904 he 
tan for School Commissioner in Orange. Theodore Roosevelt was also running 
'for some office at that time on the same ticket. Theodore won his office ; Al didn't, 
being beaten by three votes in a total of 1,400 cast. Since this he has confined his 
political efforts largely to such mild pleasures as are afforded by a membership on 
the Republican County Committee of that District. 

Ike Gilchrist has been constantly "there with the goods" in Republican poli- 
tics in Ohio. He has served as Chairman of his County Republican Executive 
Committee, and has been a delegate to various State Conventions as well as to 
the National Republican Convention at Chicago last June. With Ohio already 
wresting the title of "Mother of Presidents" from Virginia, is it any wonder that 
Ike, quietly but steadily climbing upward into the lime-light, stops occasionally to 
throw out his chest and whisper "Mommer." 

Colonel Byles also went to Chicago last year as one of the alternate delegates 
to the Republican Convention, and is now chairman of the Republican Committee 
of Crawford County, Pa. He has done so well in the latter office that a normally 
Democratic county was carried for the Republican candidates in county, state and 
nation by a majority of over 2,000 in the last campaign. In response to a letter 
asking for particulars as to his achievements he declines to commit himself fur- 
ther than the bare statement set forth above, alleging as his reason that he is too 
close to Pittsburgh to take the Class much into his confidence in regard to his 
political deeds. 

It is wonderful how prominent newspaper men are becoming in politics. 
They seem to have taken complete possession of the field formerly occupied by the 
legal profession. Here is Reid of the "Tribune,"' an Ambassador to England, 
Bryan with his "Commoner" with an unwavering eye on the Presidency, Hearst 
with a bevy of newspapers, trying for any old office. Pax Hibbin of the "Nassau 
Lit." a full-fledged secretary of legation, and last but by no means least, Whitney 
Darrow, of the Alumni Weekly, just elected Justice of the Peace at Princeton. 
I have before me a clipping from the Princeton Press, which he modestly for- 
warded, headed "Victory," while below in type nearly as large, it says "Darow and 
Taft elected!" 

There is one man, however, in our class ,whose ambition soared higher than 
any office or title in the gift of the American people. This fellow desired to be 
a king. No, it wasn't Perce Pyne! Little did his classmates guess that beneath 
his apparently democratic exterior there lurked in our brother classmate's breast 
Such a lofty ambition. He longed to be surrounded by his court and to have 
some one like Normie Park '03, Mayor of Great Bend, Pa., come bearing tribute. 
Although there were not many vacant thrones seeking New York lawyers as their 
occupants, he finally saw his chance. Coney Island desired a monarch. What 
more fitting place to receive his classmates in '03 and their tribute. Think of the 



girls and of the kingly prerogatives. He laid his plans with care, and taking 
Court Nicoll into his confidence vowed him to eternal secrecy. All the New 
York papers promptly blossomed with the news — his picture was everywhere. 
Girls wrote, and babies cried for it. There was not a female member of the chorus 
in the city that did not desire to be his queen. He planned to appoint Bill Donald, 
former deputy sheriff of Richmond County, N. Y., and present private in 
"Squadron A" his war secretary. There were, to be sure, many aspirants for the 
kingship ; among them Corse Payton, the great tragedian, an Indian from one of 
the local Wild West shows, and a sprinkling of gentlemen whose names showed 
a mixed descent from the kingdoms of Italy and Judea. It was not till the votes 
were counted that the awful truth dawned on an expectant nation that he was not 
to be the monarch of that glorious country between the Tenderloin and the Atlan- 
tic. Since that fateful day he has taken little interest in the affairs of the state or 
nation. What has America to offer to a man that would be a king? 

(The author of this learned article refuses, for reasons known only to the 
police, to affix his signature). 



1903 IN DIPLOMACY 

As far as one can see, 1903 in diplomacy is I: there appear to be no imita- 
tions or branch houses. I am sorry for that, and I shall tell you why. 

Since the President's Executive Order of November 10, 1905, providing that, 
thereafter, vacancies in the office of Secretary of Embassy or Legation be filled 
either by transfer or promotion from some branch of the foreign service, or upon 
examination to showr qualifications suiting the applicant for his work, the diplo- 
matic service of the country has ceased to be an aggregation of poHtical jobs and 
has become a career. But a career in a sense that few employments for us, at 
home, are careers — teaching, the army, the navy, the consular and perhaps the 
colonial service — these are all. Law and medicine are businesses; politics, for 
us, is certainly not so much of a career as even Nevil Beauchamp found it; the 
ministry is a service, as it should be, but it is not a career. For us, as Princeton 
men, the army and navy, demanding the special preparation that they do, are 
scarcely open. There remains, then, for those of us who wish, for one reason or 
another, to give the best work that is in us to our country, in decent and honor- 
able, though decidedly unremunerative employment, the foreign services: diplo- 
matic, consular and colonial. 

Now of these, certainly the diplomatic service is the most attractive — and de- 
cidely the most expensive to him entering it. There are 106 posts, including Am- 
bassadors, at $17,500 a year, who spend from twice to twenty times that sum, 
Ministers at $12,000, $10,000, some of whom can live on what they get and some 
of whom cannot, a diplomatic agent at $6,500, who cannot rent a respectable house 
for that amount, two Ministers Resident, one at $10,000 and one at $3,500, who 
should find the salaries remunerative ,various Secretaries of Embassy at $3,000, 
who live on hope, various Secretaries of Legation at $2,625, Second Secretaries 
of Embassy and Secretaries of Legation at $2,000, and Second Secretaries of Le- 
gation at $1,800, who get along as best they can, and six Third Secretaries of Em- 
bassy, at $1,200, who cannot live on twice the amount. Of these places, ten are 
occupied by Princeton men; 1891 has two men — for the rest, no class has more 
than one. Of these, also, eleven are Harvard graduates, though a number more 
have gone to Harvard without graduating or, like myself, have received degrees 
at Harvard without being Harvard men in the sense in which I am speaking of 
Princeton men. A few University of Pennsylvania men, a very few Yale men — 
and the remaining fourscore or thereabouts from small colleges, or from no 
college at all ! 

Now, that is regrettable. A diplomat is a soldier, and his life is a soldier's 
life; he has no home, he is continually being separated from his friends, he is 

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underpaid, he must obey without question whether he hkes or no ; yet he has hon- 
our and a certain glory that comes from giving his hfe to his country gladly and 
efficiently. He is, however, a soldier of peace, and therefore his work is not that 
of holding himself in readiness to meet a great emergency that may never arise, 
but that of meeting, daily, single-handed, emergencies that may mean peace or 
war, prestige or national chagrin to his country. A soldier is surrounded by his 
fellows, and they work in concert, mutually aiding one another both materially and 
morally. A diplomat is very much alone indeed, and, what is worse, among those 
necessarily hostile to him, actually or in spirit — pitted against the best that the 
country to which he is accredited affords in whatever field of activity he may be 
called upon to enter. For this, plainly, he must have excellent education — univer- 
sity education of the broadest scope. I remember, in Mexico, being called upon to 
translate from the French a most intricate technical treatise on a new projectile. 
Often I have been expected to negotiate matters governed by the law of the 
country of my residence with the ablest lawyers that the country possessed. The 
disadvantage is enormous, yet whatever one do, one must make no error, no mis- 
step. For every diplomat knows that he will be, and expects to be, sacrificed 
utterly as the price of any advantage to be gained by his country. It is the death 
of his career, as effectively as is the death of a soldier the end of his career. 
Nor is it less a sacrifice, less honorable, less noble ; for he must begin his life anew, 
in strange fields for which his peculiar work as a diplomat has, in a measure per- 
haps, unfitted him. 

Now, an education in broad knowledge and initiative is, one likes to believe, 
exactly what the life at Princeton brings to a man. And it is this that a diplomat 
must have. His technical experience in the forms and customs of the diplomatic 
world at large — the rules of the game — can be learned only by experience and 
travel. He may, and indeed should, serve for a time, as the unpaid private 
secretary of some ambassador in an European post. History, international law, 
a certain training in languages, a sufficient social facility, the ability to be a popu- 
lar member of a gentleman's club in any capital of the world — these things he car- 
ries with him from Princeton. Their application to his work depends wholly upon 
himself. 

And the work is agreeable, dehghtful even. It is, in a way, in each small 
part, an immortal work, without conspicuous glory, but bringing to the man en- 
gaged in it the satisfaction of a labor of value beyond the drudgery of the days of 
making out accounts, pounding the typewriter, or slaving over translations, and of 
the evenings of giving or attending dinners, organizing entertainments or playing 
bridge. The complete absorption of the significance of the policy of one's govern- 
ment, and the subservience of one's own ideas, of oneself, to the promotion of this 
policy, is what, more than all else save a constant intercourse with different peo- 
ples, serves to increase the mental suppleness, the breadth of view of a diplomat. 



what makes him, beyond the broker or the lawyer or the physician or the business 
man, essentially a man of the whole world, not a money changer in the temple of 
life. All of which has nothing much to do with my subject. However, as I have 
already said, 1903 in diplomacy — c'est moi. I have, therefore, only to tell what 
has happened to me since I made up my mind to enter the service — or rather, since 
I entered it, which, according to the date of my first commission under the Great 
Seal of the United States, was May 9, 1905. 

I bade a last farewell to the Little Burg on June loth, leaving for Paris, where 
I arrived in time to take part in the functions attendant upon the special mission 
sent to France to recover the body of Paul Jones, learning much of my future du- 
ties from the then Special Ambassador, Francis B. Loomis. Thence I went to 
Berlin, where I learned a great deal more from a most excellent master of diplo- 
macy, Charlemagne Tower. Finally, I arrived in St. Petersburg in July, the 
Russo-Japanese war being in full blast, our Embassy handling the interests of 
the Japanese as well as our own. There was much work and no little excitement, 
particularly about the negotiations for the peace conference which afterwards 
took place at Portsmouth. I managed to absorb a good deal of Russian, which is 
not so difficult a language as it looks. Peace once arranged, there was the so- 
called revolution, ending in the establishment of the Douma. During this time, 
when St. Petersburg was cut ofif by railway and telegraph from the rest of the 
world, I was alone with the Charge d'Afifaires of the Embassy. I managed to see 
various Revolutionary demonstrations, a few Cossack charges, some people killed, 
a good deal of noise, uproar and misunderstanding on the occasion of the procla- 
mation of the constitution, some very excited sessions of the Douma, the house 
of the Premier after it had been blown to pieces by a bomb, the Emperor himself, 
with whom I talked, the remnants of the Vladivostock fleet and other matters of 
interest. I also saw a good deal of the Russian Empire, which is a large place — 
larger than one would think who had not travelled about it a bit. 

After that, on July 18, 1906, they sent me to Mexico, where I had to learn 
another language. I was there for the so-called uprising in the north, last year, 
and for the visit of the Secretary of State, of the United States. 

From Mexico I came here, leaving on the twenty-eighth day of July, 1908, 
and passing through the republics of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicara- 
gua, Costa Rica and Panama en route. On September 19th, I became Charge 
d' Affaires ad interim and am so yet. The place is eight thousand odd feet up in 
the air, and a month from home, by mule, boat, railway and steamer. It is the 
hardest place to get to I ever saw, and is not worth the trouble. But it is an inter- 
esting country, for all that, once one is here. I hope to get away in July, but, as 
these people say, "Quien sabe ?" I have seen places that I cared a good deal more 
about than I do about Bogota— Mexico, for instance— but, after all, the work is 
the work : "Mecum erit iste labor." 

January i, 1909. Paxton Hibben. 

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PRINCETON 1903 IN MEDICINE 

The twin arts of Medicine and Surgery date back almost to the beginning of 
Time, at least to that time when Adam parted with a rib to prove the theory that 
it was not good for man to live alone. Since then many bright stars had arisen 
in the scientific world — Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius and Morgagni. As modern 
instances, the discovery of the circulation of the blood by Harvey, the work of Jen- 
ner upon vaccination, Pasteur's researches upon the bacterial origins of disease. 
Lister's application of antisepsis, and Hoffman and Schaudin's discovery of the 
Spirochetae pallida — all this wealth of new knowledge had well nigh convinced the 
medical world that the ultimate island of scientific lore had been reached. 

But it was in September, 1903, that a determined litttle band of men began the 
study of Medicine — Faber, Guile, Janeway, Decker, Keeney, Mixsell and Woods 
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York; Eckhardt, Howell, 
Knox, Newell, Cole, Rutherford, in Philadelphia. 

Nevertheless there was not a quiver within the ranks of medicine. The great 
hospitals kept up their work of ministry to the sick and suffering; the learned sci- 
entific societies held their solemn meetings as usual ; and the pathogenic cocci and 
baccilli continued their merry war with the Phagocytes all undaunted. 

When, in the course of the earth's revolution about the sun, October, 1907, 
came around, a startling discovery was made by the statisticians. The death rate, 
particularly that of New York City, had suddenly begun to fall, so that never 
before had city and country enjoyed such perfect health. To this day learned men 
are racking their brains to discover the source of this fall in the death rate, but it 
remains for the writer to put forth the true solution of this problem. We have 
said above that the discovery of the fall in the death rate was made in October, 
1907. Let it be remembered that thirteen members of the class of 1903 had been 
in the practice of medicine for something over four months. Post hoc, propter hoc! 

The practice of physic is an absorbing one, a profession that will admit of no 
rival in the thought of him who takes it up. No man can serve two masters. And 
so, those of us who, while in Princeton were fond of literature, have been forced 
to relinquish Dickens for Diphtheria, Scott for Scarletina, Byron for Bronchitis 
and Cowper for Colic. On the other hand, those whose thoughts were musically 
inclined have resigned Bach in favor of Boils, Wagner for Whooping Cough, Men- 
delssohn for Mumps and Haydn for Hives. A melancholy situation, but a true 
one. 

In Princeton one leads a somewhat cloistered existence, and upon graduation 
■emerges on the threshold of what is mysteriously called "the wide, wide world." 
Not so with the man who chooses Medicine for a profession. Instead of being 

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placed amid the worries and responsibilities of that world, he must spend four 
more years within the walls of a medical school, and even at his graduation thence 
usually spends eighteen months as a hospital interne. In New York City the Class 
of 1903 is represented upon the various hospital staffs as follows: Faber at Gou- 
veneur, Keeney at the Postgraduate, Decker at Presbyterian, Mixsell at the New 
York City, Janeway at St. Luke's, Guile at Bellevue, and Woods at the Nursery 
and Child's. A frantic use of the telephone has revealed the fact that Guile, 
Faber, and Janeway expect to practice in New York City, Mixsell in Easton, Pa., 
Woods in Pittsburgh, Keeney is undecided, and Decker unknown. 

Soon we will really be out in the cold world, and our troubles and responsi- 
bilities and doubts will at last begin. But there is no fear for the ultimate success 
of every one, for this is the age of the young man; Youth in Politics, in Business 
and especially in Medicine. There is not a man who has taken up this profession 
who regrets his decision and who will not agree upon looking back on his trials 
and disappointments that science hath her own rewards. 

Raymond B. Mixsell. 



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LUCY ESTABROOK GETTY 



FRANCES WORTH DANA 




RUTH ELEANOR MCNAMARA 




JOHN A. FORNEY, JR. 



FRANK C. WALLOWER, JR. 



SYBILLA KATHRYN BETZ 



placed amid the worries and responsibilities of that world, he must spend four 
more years within the walls of a medical school, and even at his graduation thence 
usually spends eighteen monihs as a hospital interne. In New York City the Class 
of 1903 is r«^presenftvi !in«w ihc various hospital staffs as follows: Faher at Gou- 
veneur. ¥• uite. Decker at Presbyterian, Mfxsell at the New 

York <"i5 - Gv.iie at Bellevue, and Woods at the Nursery 

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1903 IN THE LAW 

Our able Secretary made a mistake when he asked me to emit some Lawsonian 
prose on this subject for the benefit of the Quinquennial book. I can't speak 
for any other lawyer of the class, and modesty forbids my mentioning the multi- 
tude of restless clients, dripping gold and clamoring for admission to the sacred 
precincts of my counsel and confidence. I suppose, however, something is due 
concerning the way 1903 went to the floor with the Law. 

So far as our records reveal the truth, about fifty 1903 men heard the call and 
followed it. We were always a litigious class, when you come to think of it. Our 
legal ambitions were roused by that great case of Dugro vs. University, 3 Winans 
26, where the plaintifif invoked the aid of Bob Burkham and others, and with con- 
summate nerve slipped over a plea of ex post facto and cleared himself; and like- 
wise, Bill Newell. Bill Newell also figured as defendant in the case of University 
ex rel Bill Coombs vs. Newell, wherein Bill was indicted for felonious assault on 
one of the Lions. But Bill was always lucky, and the circumstantial evidence was 
insufficient to convict. Other famous cases were W. Donald vs. Belle, i Vander- 
bilt 25, Bellboys' Association vs. McKaig 23, Zazzali 1903 and i Topley i. This 
legal education topped off with a little English Common Law, gave us the incen- 
tive which has landed thirty-eight of us behind our respective shingles, where we 
sit, ready, willing and able to locate convenient loopholes for anxious classmates 
at so much per loophole. We handle breach of promise cases, collect or pay ali- 
mony, and in general look after your interests as well asjDur own. 

New York, Columbia, Harvard and Pennsylvania Law Schools took most 
of those who intended studying law. The New York men were the first admitted, 
there being a two-year course, while the others require three. Those of us who 
attended the New York Law School combined office duties with school work, and 
were kept pretty busy day and night as a result. The American Bar was con- 
siderably augmented when we had all negotiated with that Cerberus who guards 
the portals of the law, the Examining Board, and had staked out our claims. 
Some took the bull by the horns, hired an office, bought some natty looking furni- 
ture, employed a blonde beauty to pound the keys, and sat down to wait. Others 
associated with established firms on a salary basis, or took desk room, rendering 
services for their rent and having the privilege of their own practice. The quest- 
tion of how to establish one's self in the law is always hard to solve, but we have 
all followed our inclinations and seized our opportunities, and are hard at work. 

A profession is at all times exacting, and lawyers do not have the easy times 
that some people attribute to them. Many a gallon of midnight oil is spent on 
cases that show up but little, and there is a wealth of work and time spent which 



does not appear on the surface. The average client little realizes the services ac- 
tually rendered. But to the lawyer who has any love of his profession in his 
makeup, there is a whole lot of satisfaction in accomplishing a difficult task, and 
a promptly paid bill isn't the only reward. 

We are too young to become specialists in any branch, and most of us enjoy 
a general practice which involves everything in the Code. Very few, if any of us, 
are doing criminal work, and the same applies to Admiralty practice, it being 
rather an accepted rule, especially in New York, that these branches of the law de- 
mand specialization which the general practitioner cannot devote to the work. 
We handle everything in the civil practice, however, and in common with our 
brothers, the doctors and the ministers, we get pretty well acquainted with the 
human being. We save his property, the doctors his life, and the ministers his 
soul. Combined, we are a sort of salvage crew. 

Quite a few men who started in the law abandoned it for other pursuits which 
promised a larger income for the present, but the faithful thirty-eight still carry 
the snowy banner of Justice over the ramparts of the wicked, and aim to be Chief 
Justices of the United States. And the record of Abe Hummel makes our ambi- 
tion at least respectable. 



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1903 IN THE MINISTRY 

YoNKERS, N. Y., February 17, 1909. 
Fellow Classmates: 

It is with no little degree of hesitation that I attempt to comply with the re- 
quest of our Secretary and write this article on "1903 in the Ministry." And let 
me assure you that my embarassment is more real than was that of our classmate 
who, at the beginning of our Senior year, returned three days late, and who hur- 
ried at once to the office of President Wilson and said, "I have returned and you 
can begin college now." His was an embarassment which was due to a conscious- 
ness of retarding his classmates in their work, mine is an embarassment due to an 
attempt to imagine myself as belonging to a specific part of the class and being 
called upon to act as the representative of that specific part. 

When we speak of "1903 in the Ministry" we are speaking of something that 
carries our minds almost to the ends of the globe itself. From the classic shades 
of the American College in Syria, to "India's coral strand," the voice of 1903 men 
is heard in the proclamation of the Gospel truth, so new and so vital to the un- 
christian heathen. Probably most conspicuous of our classmates in the work of 
the ministry in the far away lands is "Sam" Higginbottom, who is doing a most 
marvelous work as Superintendent of a school of lepers in India. Better would 
it have been could "Sam" have contributed this article, for such a work of perso- 
nal sacrifice as he is doing would be more fitting a chronicle to be made a perma- 
nent document in the archives of our class. Or next best, it would have been 
fitting, could this "year book" have contained some account of the sacrifice two of 
our men are making in the section of our own country, known in ecclesiastical cir- 
cles as "among the Mountain Whites of the South." "Normie" Schenck and 
"Mac" Taylor are the representatives of our class in this particular branch of mis- 
sionary work. We who have never attempted such a work can not imagine the 
sacrifice it calls for, and only as we have read of such work, or perhaps heard of 
it from the lips of one who has been engaged in it, do we know the sacrificial char- 
acter of it. It takes the real "stuft'" from which men are made to be successful 
in such a work, and 1903 can be justly proud of her men who have been coura- 
geous enough to volunteer for such a work, either at home or in the foreign field. 
But most gratifying of all is the success which is crowning their work, and as a 
class we share this success with them. Reports from India are full of the work 
of the School of Lepers, under "Sam" Higginbotham, and no missionary in In- 
dia is doing better or more effective work than is he. One only has to read the 
"News" which "Mac" Taylor is editing in connection with his chapel work, to see 
that he is successful. Surely the days of "Macs" Princetonian experience were 



not spent in vain. Success has crowned the work of "Normie" Schenck in more 
ways than one, as is evidenced by the "announcement" many of us received not 
many weeks ago. In the rush of his work, "Normie" has had time to run away 
from the hills of North Carolina and "take a wife from among the daughters of" 
Oxford, Ohio. This latest movement of "Normie" is a further evidence not only 
of his success but also of his deep-seated courage. 

But to get back to the point I was trying to make. I wanted to say that my 
hesitation and my embarassment was due to my trying to represent "1903 in the 
Ministry" when really such men as I have mentioned should be looked to as the 
representative men of our class in this particular work. 

As for myself, I began my ministry in May, 1906, after having spent three 
years in study among the "Seminoles" at Princeton. The very same "peaceful 
Seminole" we used to sing about, and who would "tremble in his bed" as the "sim- 
ple student would make the "old triangle ring, with the music of his tread." My 
first charge was at Matteawan, N. Y., the place made world-famed by reason of 
its becoming the home of Harry K. Thaw. The ministers' life in this village was 
only common-place, until after the arrival of our distinguished guest, when we 
were all made famous as having been the preacher when Mr. Thaw attended 
chapel. I, with the others, was raised by the press of New York City, to this sig- 
nal honor. It also became my privilege to visit Mr. Thaw in a social way and to 
enjoy a smoke with him, and without feeling myself qualified to testify as an 
alienist upon the question so long in dispute, I can say that I found him an ex- 
tremely interesting and entertaining man. In September, 1908, I was called away 
from Matteawan to this much larger and more promising and thus more inviting 
field here in Yonkers, where I still am. 

My work has been, and I presume the work of all 1903 men engaged in the 
active charge of a church has also been, the ordinary pastoral work of a minister 
and in parishes which have called for work such as is commonly demanded from 
a pastor. Some one has said that "a minister has as much writing to do as has an 
editor, as much calling as a Doctor, as much reading as a Professor and as much 
speaking as a lawyer," and I guess, judging from my brief experience, the man 
who said that is not so very far wrong. Two sermons each week and a prayer 
meeting talk keep a fellow busy with his pen, even if he doesn't attempt to write 
out in full his sermon material. It is only a "Hell-Devil- Skillman" who speaks by 
inspiration, that needs no preparation for his sermons ; and outlines, introductions, 
perorations and new outlines, keep a minister with his pen in hand every morning 
throughout the week. 

But this is not all the work of the day, for after the morning sermonic prep- 
aration there must be a pastoral visitation among the "flock." Occasionally we 
have in the congregation some old maid who thinks that the Pastor must not 
pass her home without "dropping in" for a call, and often we have a mother who 



looks every day for the Pastor when the baby is cutting a tooth, or is "taken with 
the measles." But the pastoral visitation is not all so monotonous as this. There 
is a real joy in a visit to the home of the saintly old man or woman who has 
passed the "three score years and ten" of man's allotted life, and is simply waiting 
for the summons which will call him to a better land. If the experience of the 
other 1903 men in the ministiy is similar to mine, and I have no reason to believe 
but that it is, we have all received many an inspiration from a call upon such 
saints, as we have kneeled in prayer with them, and we have often gone from 
such homes more buoyant and hopeful, and stronger in faith and deeper in conse- 
cration to our work, which at the best is a work of love and sacrifice. In this way 
most of us spend our afternoons, and not infrequently do we visit 125 or 150 
homes in a single month. But when the shadows of the night have fallen and we 
are tired, even from the comfort we have tried to give to others and the inspiration 
others have given us, yet our work is not done. Vastly different from the under- 
graduate days at Princeton when the worst we had to do in the evenings was to 
"kill time," the evenings of a minister's life are usually as fully occupied as is 
the day. In the church of which I am now Pastor, it seems as if there never is an 
evening when there is "nothing doing." Of course one evening each week is 
occupied with the mid-week service of prayer, which in most churches is regarded 
as a necessary evil, and which most church members "cut" with the regularity and 
consistency with which most of us cut Prexy Patton's Ethics lectures way back 
there in our Junior days. Then, too, the various boards and societies of the 
church must find a night when they can meet, and while it is not absolutely neces- 
sary for the Pastor to be present at each and every meeting, we nevertheless find 
it advisable to "drop in" occasionally if only for a part of the meeting. You see 
a good "boot-lick" goes as far in the ministry as it used to go in College, and the 
lessons we learned in that popular art during University days, has stood us in 
good stead on more than one occasion. In this way we spend our evenings until 
we repair to the manse for a night of what most of us believe is well earned rest. 
But even yet we are not through, for often after "the wife and children" are fast 
asleep, the Pastor-Minister-Preacher is compelled to do the reading without which 
he becomes as dry as the well into which the brethren of Joseph cast the son 
of Jacob with his coat of many colors. And so midnight not infrequently finds 
us burning the oil. The picture often carries my mind back to those days at Col- 
lege when we were busy "poling for exams.," only to-day they are more frequent 
and more scattered through the term, and to-day also the absence of the "fresh 
fire" makes it more prosaic. 

There is much a minister is called upon to do which is not altogether unpleas- 
ant, but which is nevertheless a tax upon his time and resources. Especially is 
this true in a village such as was the village where I began my ministry. The 
minister in such a village is a public servant. The whole community is his parish 

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and he must stand ready to serve all who call upon him. People think he is 
always prepared to make a speech, and the fact of it is that he always must be 
prepared. Scarcely a Memorial Day comes around but that he has some part in 
the public exercises in the village grove or at the cemetery. He takes his turn 
with the other ministers of the village as the orator of the day, or as the minister 
who makes the prayer at the grave. He must be in evidence else his absence is 
the subject of comment. The dinners and banquets of the various organizations 
of the village are never complete without one or more of the ministers, and sel- 
dom do we refuse the invitation when there is a feed in it, even though we are 
compelled to be a speaker. Occasionally we find ourselves up against a real prob- 
lem, as was the case with myself on one occasion. It was a district convention of 
the W. C. T. U. I, with several other speakers, were to fill up the program of 
the day in a discussion of the problem of how to train a boy, having especial 
reference, of course, to his training to hate liquor. The subject had been assigned 
with reference to the natural or inferred fitness of the speaker, and I had been 
asked two weeks before the convention day to speak from the standpoint of Psy- 
chology. I was comparatively new in the village, and it was up to me to make a 
hit, and so I tried to recall all that "Mark" Baldwin had ever spoken or written on 
"Child Training." I went to the Convention Hall just in time to be announced 
as "the next speaker will be 'Dr.' (notice the degree) Stratton, who will speak on 
"Training of a Child, by Love, from the Standpoint of a Mother." The woman 
who had made up the subjects had missed her signal entirely, and I was the goat. 
Only her generous bestowal of a Doctor's degree on me made me face the music. 
One feature of our work which oftentimes brings a sense of satisfaction to 
us, and yet which is perhaps the most severe strain we have upon our nervous 
force, is the funerals to which we are called to officiate. I can think of no work 
among professional men which is so physically exhausting as is this funeral ser- 
vice. He never has so many that they become common-place experiences of life, 
and his heart never becomes hardened to the company of mourning friends and 
relatives. He must literally "weep with those who weep" and in his delegated 
sorrow he must be the one who leads the mourners into the way of peace and 
comfort. I say it is a ministerial experience that taxes the nervous force to the 
limit, and yet which fills him with a sense of satisfaction. And yet in such hours 
of sadness we occasionally find a case which is ludicrous to the extreme. Such 
an ore, as when a minister was called to officiate at the funeral of an infant of but 
a few weeks. The child was of illegitimate origin, and its environments were such 
that had its life been spared it would have been surrounded with vice and impu- 
rity. The room at the house was crowded with friends of the girl-mother, and 
it afforded a golden opportunity for the minister to preach a straight gospel sermon 
to people who seldom if ever darkened the doors of a church. He thought he 
was making an impression upon all as he plead with them for a life of child-like 

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purity. At the close of the service an old man with a German-English accent, 
stepped up and said, "Dank you, Mr. Preacher, ven I die, I vant you to come and 
put me through like that." Only the deep seriousness of the occasion kept back 
a laugh. 

But let me speak a word or two about the graft of the minister. Yes, graft, 
for the wedding fee seems to me the only graft he has. In the matter of salary 
there is no doubt but that as a class the minister belongs to a sadly underpaid pro- 
fession, and yet in the matter of weddings I presume he is as highly paid as any 
profession. I fancy it would make interesting reading could it be possible to 
gather together the wedding experiences of all the ministers in our class and pub- 
lish them. Perhaps the first wedding ceremony performed has an abiding charac- 
teristic in the memory. Mine came one evening just a week after I had begun my 
work. It was after eleven o'clock, and I was about to retire. A son of the 
housekeeper answered the bell, and I heard a faint voice say, "Does the minister 
live here?" They were ushered into the study of the minister, while I, as fright- 
ened as they, was making myself presentable. Diplomacy and sentiment had fled 
from me for the moment, and I opened up the conversation by asking "I suppose 
this is a bride and groom?" They informed me that they "wanted to be," and I 
tied the knot. $i was added to my bank account. But the sad part about this 
wedding was the fact that in a short time the couple had separated and divorce 
proceedings began. Evidently my service didn't "take" ; and I have often won- 
dered if it were possible that in my nervous state I might have read the "funeral 
service" instead of the "wedding service." 

One hot, sultry day in July, I was sitting on my back porch, coat, collar and tie 
off, sleeves rolled up, and a cigar in my mouth. I didn't look like a preacher, I 
will admit, and I do not blame the woman who came into the yard breathlessly in- 
quiring "Are you the minister?" I admitted the "korn," and then she said, "My 
brother wants to be married, and he asked me to find a minister for him. You are 
the only one I can think of." I accepted her apology, made some inquiry, and 
hastened off to the celebration. It was at the foot of the mountain, and it was a 
typical mountain party I found there. Distinctively informal was the gathering, 
too, and more than one of the merry party had laid aside shoes and socks, and 
coats were as scarce as Freshmen the night before Washington's birthday. But to 
make a long story short and to bring the point I had in my mind before you, let 
me say that the couple were "spliced" and with my envelope in hand I made my 
way back to the comforts of the back porch. What was my surprise when I 
opened the envelope, to find a crisp new $io bill. Occasionally we get such sur- 
prises, but really they are few in a village. More often do we get "burnt" as 
did several ministers in our town not many months ago. It was on a cold, rainy 
day in February, when a little boy came into the study of the Episcopal Rector, 
with the requests, "Sis is going to get married, and she wants you to come up and 

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bring one of those pretty certificates with roses," "Who is your sister?" de- 
manded the Rector. "Mary Scouten," said the boy; "and she hves the last house 
on Mountain Lane. She wants to be married at 2 o'clock." "Well," said the 
Rector, "I cannot be there at 2 o'clock, but you tell your sister I will be there at 
2.30." At the appointed time the Rector was at the house, wet to the skin, and 
shoes one mass of mud. But there were no signs of a coming nuptial. Soon the 
boy came into the room and said, "You are too late; the Presbyterian minister 
got here first." "Then why didn't you come down and tell me, you little scamp !" 
said the Rector. "Ump !" said the boy, "do you suppose I was going to go out in 
this rain?" Every minister of the town had been asked to come to tie the knot. 
The Presbyterian minister was first there, and the $1 was his. The rest were 
"burnt." But after all, such experiences are also very rare, and on the whole the 
wedding ceremony is a happy and joyous time for the minister as well as the 
guests. 

I fear I have written too much. Perhaps, ten years from now, such trifles 
will be forgotten, but now they seem interesting in the newness of our ministerial 
experience. 

I know I can say upon behalf of the "1903 men in the ministry" that there is 
not a man of us who regrets having accepted the call to our work. None of us 
will ever become rich, and but few of the ministers of our class will ever be able 
to save much for the proverbial "rainy day," but in our sacrifice we are happy, and 
in the simplicity of our faith we feel that "some day" we will be rewarded. 

Paul Stratton. 



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CLASS REUNIONS 

Since the publication of our First Record Book, we have held four reunions, 
and I shall attempt to describe briefly the two larger reunions, namely, the Trien- 
nial and the Quinquennial. 

TRIENNIAL REUNION 

Our headquarters for our Triennial Reunion was located at No. 15 Dickinson 
Street, Princeton. Thanks to the efforts of our Reunion Committee, everything 
was in readiness for the reception of the fellows, and to say that all attended for 
the purpose of enjoyment is surely putting it very mildly. Our sailor costumes 
were most comfortable, as, you will remember, the day of the Yale game was prob- 
ably the hottest of the year. I think that our noble banner-bearers, Ike Gilchrist 
and Ross McClave, will bear me out in that statement. In the "P"rade before 
the game, 1903 looked very fine; attired in white sailor suits we marched around 
the field in true sailor style. 

The game resulted, as usual, in a glorious victory for Princeton, and after a 
few well executed manoeuvres on the baseball diamond, the boswain piped all 
hands to headquarters as a severe storm was threatening, and with the band play- 
ing and colors flying the return voyage was started. We reached headquarters 
-safely, and after making fast all the ropes on the tent, for the wind was howling 
now and the rain was coming down in torrents, all the 1903 jackies gathered in 
the tent and proceeded to swap yarns, etc., and the fierceness of the storm outside 
was soon forgotten. 

On Sunday we spent a very quiet day, the principal topic of discussion being 
the awful storm of the night before. On Sunday night we had a beefsteak supper 
served in the tent, and everybody had a good time. 

The Reunion terminated on Monday night, and 1903 bade goodby to Prince- 
ton, filled with pleasant memories, etc., of Reunion times. 

Quinquennial Reunion. 
Friday afternoon, June 5, 1908, marked the beginning of the five-year reunion 
of the Class of 1903. Our hadquarters at No. 176 Nassau Street was well adapted 
for Reunion purposes. Great preparations had been made by the Committee for 
the proper entertainment of the Class. All Friday afternoon and evening, the 
fellows were engaged in and about the headquarters making preparations for 
the big day. 

On Saturday, the Class gathered early at the tent and the distribution of the 
cooks' costumes commenced, and after the band arrived things began to liven up 
a bit. In the meantime. Ward Chamberlain and "Banj" Armstrong had prepared 
a float for the "P"rade, and Bill Donald, Harry Turner and Al Smith had finished 



their artistic work on the transparencies. Everything being ready, and headed by 
our band, the Class began its march down to the field, this being a particularly im- 
portant event to us as our Class boy was to throw out the first ball and start the 
game. At the entrance to the field we halted and uncovered a magnificent float, 
on which was a huge cauldron fixed on a tripod and cooks Bill Donald and Ed 
Woods did very effective service in "keeping the pot boiling." When we reached 
the grandstand, the Yale bulldog was unceremoniously tossed into the caldron and 
properly boiled, and then, by some mysterious magic, known only to well regulated 
cooks, and under the cloak of clouds of yellow smoke, there appeared hundreds of 
frankfurters, ready to be served. After the "P"rade had passed and the Princeton 
team were in the field ready to start the game, our Class boy, Philip Henry Dugro 
II, also dressed in a cook's suit, walked out from the players' bench, being escorted 
by his proud father and "Ed" Palmer, toward the pitcher's box, and steadying him- 
self in true baseball fashion, tossed the ball to the Princeton pitcher, and the 
game was started. Princeton won the game from Yale after nine innings of most 
exciting baseball. Saturday night, there was a great gathering at headquarters, 
and there was something doing all the time. 

On Sunday afternoon, the Cup Presentation exercises were held in the tent. 
The presence of Mrs. C. H. Dugro and a party of her girl friends graced the 
occasion. President Pearson with a few well chosen remarks introduced the 
"Class boy" officially to the Class and then presented him with the cup, which 
was promptly filled with wine, and each person present drank to the health of 
the boy. After the exercises were over, there was a song recital, which was 
enjoyed by all. That evening the Class witnesssed the trial of an action which 
involved very difficult and profound questions of law. The allegations contained 
in the complaint were as follows : One Bill Singer, while lawfully on certain 
premises belonging to one "Col" Byles, and having entered a certain structure or 
shed upon said premises and while resting therein was forcibly precipitated into 
an excavation thereunder by reason of the collapse of the floor, sides and roof 
of said structure, wholly by reason of the unsafe condition of said structure and 
the negligence of the said Byles, his servants and agents in maintaining and 
operating upon said premises an unsafe structure whereby the said Singer suffered 
serious and permanent injury, and from which injuries he became and was 
and still continues and will continue permanently to be sick and disordered, 
and suffered and still suffers great mental anguish; that he has been and will 
permanently be unable to labor and wholly incapacitated and prevented from 
carrying on his usual occupation, which is that of a district leader, and that 
he has necessarily expended and will be compelled in the future to expend 
large sums of money for the recovery of his health and equipoise. The plaint- 
iff claimed that he had been damaged in the sum of $10,000. The trial was 
tried before that learned jurist, Mr. Justice Hack, and jury. "Pittsburgh Al" 



Schultz was foreman of the jury, which consisted of twelve tried and true students 
of Princeton. Counsellor Smith opened the case for the plaintiff by calling 
the latter in person to the stand, and drew from him, item by item, his heart- 
rending tale. The plaintiff gave a vivid description of his sensations in falling 
through space, and counsel dwelt at length on the suffering caused by his 
fall. Frequent applause met the witnesses' replies. Counsellor Pierson, for the 
defense, then took the witness in hand and plied him with questions on cross- 
examination, which nettled the witness to such an extent that he hurled the witness 
chair at the defendant's counsel. Judge Hack ordered sergeant-at-arms McDonald 
to apprehend the witness, and after lecturing him on the duties of Htigants and 
witnesses, adjudged him guilty of contempt, and banished him from the court. 
Whereupon the plaintiff became sore and went over to '05's tent. 

The next witness for the plaintiff was Erastus Wells, Ph.D., manager of 
"The Leatheraz Quartette," who was qualified as an expert on construction of 
such structures as that in which the plaintiff was sojourning when he fell. Fie 
testified that he had had forty years experience in building these structures. That 
it was his business to inspect same; that he had inspected the one in question; 
that it was unsafe and dangerous. Dr. Wells' testimony, while technical, was 
most interesting, and he completely baffled any attempt of the defendant's counsel 
to mix him up. 

Counsellor Smith then stated that the plaintiff rested. After an impassioned 
address to the jury. Counsellor Pierson called the defendant Byles to the stand. 
His testimony was to the effect that the structure was not in dangerous condition ; 
that it did not collapse, but that the plaintiff came to his alleged injury solely 
by reason of his own inherent negligence. 

In rebuttal, Dr. E. B. Woods testified that he had made an exhaustive 
examination of the plaintiff, and found absolutely no evidence of any permanent 
injury. Here both sides rested, and after the summing up, remarkable for vigor 
and erudition, the judge charged the jury and the latter retired for consultation 
a few feet nearer the beer. Strenuous debates could be heard from the jury 
room; twice the jury asked for instructions as to whether they were to believe 
the testimony of the experts Woods and Wells, and on being charged in the 
negative, each time retired for further consideration. At 12.26 a. m. they filed 
into Court with the following verdict: Verdict for plaintiff, $12, but if defendant 
wishes to plead insanity he needn't pay it. Thus closed one of the most remark- 
able trials in the history of reunion jurisprudence. 

The Reunion closed on Monday night with a grand concert held in the tent. 
A full programme of instrumental music was rendered — a la Kneisel — by Ike 
Stryker's Ethiopian symphony orchestra. There was also present a Scotch piper, 
who played several airs on his bagpipe. 

On Tuesday all bade good-bye again to Princeton, with more fond memories 
of Reunion times, 

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CLASS MEMORIAL FUND 

My dear Classmates: 

After the illness of "Cap" Sellers, who, as our memorial secretary, had done 
much work in developing interest in our class memorial fund, and had in fact 
made a strong beginning in putting this fund on a working basis, I was asked 
by the officers of the class to take up the work where he left off, and raise the 
money necessary for our class memorial. Shortly before "Cap" Sellers's resig- 
nation, the class entered into an agreement with the University, with the terms 
of which every member must be by now familiar. In brief, the agreement pro- 
vides that we are to raise and pay to the University the sum of seventeen thousand 
five hundred dollars ($17,500) in installments of two thousand dollars ($2,000) 
per year from the year nineteen hundred and seven, and in return the University 
agrees to begin at once the erection of a new dormitory, one entry of which, a 
tower entry, shall bear the numerals of 1903. It becomes my duty, therefore, and 
our secretary has requested it, to write a letter outlining the work connected with 
the management of this fund, and report what progress has been made. 

In the first place, after one year's experience, the work proved to be too great, 
and covered too large a territory for the attention of one man. Ward B. Chamber- 
lin was appointed to take charge of the men who live in New York City ; Isaac W. 
Roberts, those in Philadelphia and vicinity; and Gustavus Ober, those in Balti- 
more and vicinity. With this added strength, and with the addition of possibly 
one or two more men to the committee as the work progresses, the fund should 
be established on a permanent working basis. 

A brief statement of the present situation of the Memorial Fund will be of 
interest. One hundred and thirt)'-two men of our class have put down their names 
as subscribers to this fund, and the subscriptions vary from a few dollars per year 
to one hundred dollars per year. The subscriptions now standing on the books 
aggregate one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars ($1,260) per year. Out 
of the whole number of subscribers there are a few who as yet have made no 
payment, but by far the larger portion of subscriptions have been paid to date. 
A glance at the facts as stated above shows the weaknesses of the Memorial 
Fund at the present time. We have agreed to pay in two thousand dollars 
($2,000) per year, and we have subscribed only one thousand two hundred and 
sixty dollars ($1,260). Out of a class graduating some two hundred and thirty- 
five men, only one hundred and thirty-two men have subscribed to this fund. 
And furthermore, out of the number who have subscribed some have subscribed 
amounts much smaller than they should give to such a fund, and some have 
failed altogether in paying the amounts which they have subscribed. 



As this fund is destined to create a class memorial, to be credited alike to 
every man in our class, and to become a lasting memorial to it on the campus 
of Princeton University, it is only right that every man in the class should do 
his part. An average subscription of ten dollars ($io) per year for two hundred 
men would place this fund on a safe working basis, and would enable us to make 
the payments when due. Many members of the class have subscribed much 
larger sums than the average sum above mentioned and many have made smaller 
subscriptions. It is not so much the amount of the subscription on which the 
committee desires to place emphasis, as it is the number of the subscriptions. 
Every man should do something to increase this fund so that our debt to the 
University may be speedily paid. New subscriptions are desired, and members 
of our class who read this letter, and have as yet made no subscription, are 
urged to do so. 

It is not an empty purpose for which your committee is working in its 
somewhat tedious labor of soliciting subscriptions, but it is laboring for an object 
which, when accomplished, will be a credit to our class, and a source of just pride 
to every member, as well as a very substantial gift to the University. And in 
undertaking this work the committee feels that it can safely rely, as it must, upon 
the loyalty of every member of the class of 1903 to his class and to his college, 
which shall carry the work through to a successful and worthy conclusion. 

AuGusTE Roche, Jr., 
For the Class Memorial Committee. 



QUINQUENNIAL REUNION ACCOUNT 

Receipts from Subscriptions $1,725 10 

Disbursements : 

Costumes $224 40 

Band (Voss) 161 70 

Band (Stryker) 32 00 

Class Cup 47 00 

Steins 22 00 

Extra steins 5 25 

Anton Day (carpenter) 125 00 

Repair piano 5 00 

Reisenweber (caterer) 371 60 

E. R. Branch 26 25 

Annin & Co 2 80 

P. U. Press 53 48 

Extra printing 6 75 

Electric light, wiring, etc 38 00 

Float for parade 18 98 

Wages of doorman 20 00 

Tickets for Yale game 6 00 

Rent of land 75 00 

Chas. Spence, meals for band 17 00 

Mershon (carpenter) 9 50 

Renwick and Topley, soft drinks 6 25 

Carroll (carting) 3 22 

Wine for Cup 8 00 

Stenography and typewriting 12 50 

Banner poles, extras for parade 4 So 

Postage, cards, etc 5 65 

Express charges on steins 2 40 

Class Officers Association i 50 

Cab hire 2 00 

Brooms, buckets, pitchers, etc 2 50 

Exchange on foreign checks i 90 

Phones, telegrams, etc i 80 

Rent of tent 57 00 

Tips for extra service 375 

1,380 68 



Balance $334 42 

Triennial Deficit 200 00 

Balance in Treasury $134 42 



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